Today s Environment Report examines the link between allergies and climate change
If even hearing the word “ragweed” makes your eyes water, you might be one of the nearly 45 million Americans with seasonal allergies. Researchers say climate change is fueling the rise in allergies and asthma.
Jenny Fischer has been taking over-the-counter medication for allergies for a long time. Without it, she suffers cold-like symptoms: a runny nose, sneezing and congestion. An allergy pill usually made it better. But a couple of years ago, things started to get worse.
“I’d be out at 5:30 in the morning walking my dog, and it would just be huffing and puffing. And, you know, I couldn’t catch my breath. It s scary, she said.
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Some Michigan propane suppliers switching to rail cars in anticipation of Line 5 closure
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
Posted Mar 12, 2021
The Enbridge Mackinaw Station, where Line 5 emerges from underneath the Straits of Mackinac near Mackinaw City, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015.The Grand Rapids Press
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Propane suppliers reliant on Enbridge’s Line 5 are transitioning to railroad cars to get their products in anticipation of the oil pipeline shutting down in May.
Several suppliers in Michigan began exploring alternatives when Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the end of an easement that allows the controversial 67-year-old pipeline to run beneath the Straits of Mackinac. From Superior, Wisconsin, Line 5 runs east to the Upper Peninsula then southeast to a Rapid River township refinery, near Escanaba, where natural gas liquids from Line 5 are stripped for propane.