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1st Friday Focus on the Environment: Great Lakes Friday Focus on the Environment: Fracking

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On the first Friday of every month, WEMU Morning Edition host David Fair is joined in-studio by Michigan League of Conservation Voters Executive Director Lisa Wozniak. together they bring in the experts that can speak to issues of environmental importance. In this month's installment, the guest is Jon Allen. Jon heads up the Michigan Department of environmental Quality's Office of the Great Lakes.

 A recent conference of the Governors of the Great Lakes States was used to set priorities for the organization and for the clean-up, restoration and protection of the worlds largest fresh water supply. In this months installment of WEMU's 1st Friday Focus on the Environment, you'll learn about those priorities and how the recently passed state budget will impact those efforts.

Nearly three-quarters of David Fair’s 20+ years in radio has been at WEMU. Since 1994, he has been on the air at 5am each weekday on 89.1 FM as the local host of NPR’s Morning Edition. Over the years, Fair has had the opportunity to interview nationally and internationally known politicians, activists and celebrities. But he feels the most important features and interviews have been with those who live and work here at home. He believes his professional passions and desires fit perfectly into WEMU’s commitment to serving a local audience.
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