The S.S. Badger, the nation's last operating coal-fired ferryboat, kicked off its sailing season Monday while awaiting word on a proposed deal with the government over releasing waste ash into Lake Michigan.
With the lead sponsor in debt to the pyrotechnic company that provides the annual Fourth of July fireworks show in Grand Haven, plans for this year's show are up in the air.
Seventy-nine gallons of "very slightly radioactive water" from a leaky tank at the troubled Palisades Nuclear Power Plant spilled into Lake Michigan, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokeswoman said Monday.
Edith of Grand Haven asked, "Where can I properly dispose of mercury? I have a couple of old thermometers that I would guess have mercury in them, and I heard they are very dangerous to the environment to just throw away in the trash."
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