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Water Availability and Use Pilot: A Multiscale Assessment in the U.S. Great Lakes Basin is a new report on a study which focused on collecting, compiling, and analyzing a wide variety of data to define the storage and dynamics of water resources and quantify the human demands on water in the Great Lakes region.
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A Commons committee intends to grill members of the Canada's nuclear regulator and Bruce Power over plans to ship used radioactive generators through the Great Lakes.
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He's only been living in the Twin Ports for a few weeks, but already Dr. Ralph Garono has big plans for a new estuary research and education center being developed in Superior, Wisc.
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Four members of the Illinois Congressional delegation recently took a swing at the biggest problem the Great Lakes face - the dumping of sewage into our waterways.
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At the moment, oil and gas royalties in Michigan go into a trust fund for conservation. But that could change.
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Under pressure from state legislators to curb water pollution, many dishwasher detergent manufacturers cut phosphates out of their soap on July 1.
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Registration for the State of the Science Workshop on the Ecological Effects of Wind is now open. The workshop takes place March 9-10 in Indianapolis, Ind. Register by February 11 to take advantage of the early bird registration rate!
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In a letter this week to the Great Lakes Congressional Delegation, Great Lakes Commission Chair James Tierney urged the delegation to sustain appropriations for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) in the FY 2011 federal budget.
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While 76% of the public considers the water quality of our rivers and Lake Michigan to be satisfactory or better at this time, they also believe water quality will become bigger problems in the coming decades.
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For the Republicans now controlling state government, the Pure Michigan tourism campaign appears to be the kind of spending they can support.
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The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has issued a wastewater permit for U.S. Steel Midwest's mill in Portage.
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While Fort Wayne residents dutifully endure higher sewer rates to pay for the federally mandated plan to keep raw sewage out of its rivers, the Gary Sanitary District continues to use the Great Lakes as its sewer - with no immediate plans to stop.
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The impact the Great Lakes Memorial Marina has on the community was reflected in a report filed by Jim Kudlicki of the MMG. He stated that 632 transient boats docked there last year bringing with some 1,420 visitors.
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How low will water levels go this spring and summer in lakes and rivers in Chatham-Kent? While the pleasure boating season is still months away, water levels are a growing concern for many captains.
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Four environmental groups are fighting the renewal of the federal operating license for FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station on Lake Erie in northwest Ohio.
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The man President Barack Obama has charged with managing the Asian carp threat is hearing criticism that the government is not moving fast enough to prevent the invasive fish from infiltrating the Great Lakes.
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A key objective in any war is winning hearts and minds. In the battle to keep the Great Lakes free of Asian carp infestation, the federal government must convince Great Lakes region residents that its methods merit their support.
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The Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case that pits thousands of lakefront property owners fed up with trespassers against a state agency's rules that establish public access along Lake Erie.
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Approximately $800,000 will be available to help landowners protect municipal drinking water sources in four watersheds, including the Grand River, under the Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship Program.
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A public meeting on a federal study on whether to separate the Great Lakes from the Mississippi River, to keep Asian carp and other species from moving between the two, has been postponed because of the weather.
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Please join the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for NOAA's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Check-Up, a review of NOAA's contributions under the 2010 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI). The review is Feb. 15-16 at the Michigan League, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
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William Bowerman, professor of environmental toxicology and wildlife ecology at Clemson University, has been appointed United States co-chairman of the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board for the United States-Canada International Joint Commission.
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What's the dirty secret behind Dalton McGuinty's clean energy program? Why did McGuinty choose the most expensive plan possible for harnessing wind power? McGuinty chose private ownership. In doing so, he designed profit to private developers so generous they can contemplate the horrendous cost of building wind farms out in the Great Lakes.
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CEO says modular fabrication, Arctic, Great Lakes and St. Lawrence shipping areas of potential growth for burgeoning port.
Deep underground Cleveland tunnel, including segment under Lake Erie, will cost $198
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Sometime this spring, contractors near the Bratenahl-Cleveland border will begin digging a mammoth new hole for a sewer pipe that will be built 200 feet underground -- and run under Lake Erie for more than half a mile.
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