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Brenda Lussier is determined to be the first deaf woman to swim across Lake Ontario. Her swim is helping to raise funds for cystic fibrosis initiatives. Read the full story by The Blade. View the full article

Chicago and a group representing Great Lakes surfers urged a federal judge Thursday to crack down on U.S. Steel, accusing the Trump administration of failing to punish the company harshly enough for repeated spills of toxic chromium into Lake Michigan. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune. View the full article

The Nature Conservancy of Canada has just succeeded in acquiring a large, 13 square kilometre stretch of property at Black Bay just north of Thunder Bay. Read the full story by Radio Canada International. View the full article

Cornell University researchers have confirmed that two new exotic species have established themselves in the Great Lakes. Cornell has been monitoring zooplankton populations in all five of the Great Lakes since 2012. Read the full story by the Newton County Enterprise. View the full article

The Erie County Executive will now be a voice for Lake Erie on a multi-state platform. Dahlkemper says, “Lake Erie is vital to our region’s future. Whether it be tourism, what draws people here in terms of quality of life or just the fact of being the closest body of water and what that does for businesses.” Read the full story by Your Erie. View the full article

‘Hurricane Huron’, as it was later nicknamed, was a strong cyclonic storm system that began forming in Lake Huron on September 11, 1996. Its overall strength increased quickly, with surface winds building from 11 mph to 67 mph by the end of the day. Read the full story by WBCK – Battle Creek, MI. View the full article

The Great Lakes Cruising Coalition has been working to re-establish the long dormant Great Lakes cruise trade. The group’s Executive Director, Stephen Burnett, discusses how the Great Lakes region is back on the radar for the international cruise tourism industry. Read the full story by the Door County Pulse. View the full article

According to a report published by Purdue University, a warmer and wetter climate in the Midwest could lead to the displacement of some cold-water fish species in southern Lake Michigan. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune. View the full article

The Northwest Indiana Forum released a “strategy for economic transformation” Thursday that it hopes will align the activities of the many actors involved in economic development around a common set of goals and the means to achieve them. Read the full story by the Northwest Indiana Times. View the full article

Indiana’s aquatic ecosystems will experience wide-ranging changes as climate change affects the state’s many lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands, a new report says. Read the full story by the Courier & Press. View the full article

A new report has found that shipping along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway system does not live up to its potential, and that traffic along the international waterway has dropped off significantly since 1980. Read the full story by the Watertown Daily Times. View the full article

There is a new way to keep your boat clean and free of invasive species in Higgins Lake. Michigan Department of Natural Resources has partnered with local organizations to provide three boat washes at the lake. To prevent the introduction and spread of invasive species, boaters are encouraged to use the wash stations before and after they enter the lake. Read the full story by Up North Voice. View the full article

The Coast Guard, along with federal, state, tribal and local partners, is slated to participate in a full-scale pollution response exercise in Manistique Harbor, Michigan, Saturday through September 21. Read the full story by Sault Online. View the full article

The Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation is conducting the fall beach clean up this Saturday in Goderich. Coastal Technologist Tineasha Brenot says anyone who is able to help can meet at the pavilion across from the Beech Street Station Restaurant between ten and noon on Saturday. Read the full story by Blackburn News. View the full article

Don Einhouse of Silver Creek has finally retired after 37 years of doing the things that he loved in what was essentially his backyard, Lake Erie. Einhouse worked for the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) as a fisheries biologist and meant something special to the angling community. Read the full story by the Buffalo News. View the full article

There was plenty of frustration and some anger being expressed on Tuesday night at a public meeting regarding low water levels in Lake St. Lawrence. Residents of the region had an opportunity to tell their stories about how the low water levels are affecting them and their neighbours. Read the full story by the Standard-Freeholder. View the full article

An angler caught and released a large muskie while fishing from a pier in Michigan City on Sunday evening. The catch follows several years of muskie sightings in Lake Michigan. It’s believed that the fish ventured down from Green Bay and may be linked to regional stocking efforts. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune. View the full article

If you are looking for a way to give back to the Great Lakes, this Saturday the Alliance for the Great Lakes is hosting hundreds of beach cleanups throughout the region. Read the full story by WNDU16 – South Bend, IN. View the full article

Researchers are concerned that climate change has caused a decline in populations of the emerald shiner, an important food source for sport fish in the Niagara River, which could lay the groundwork for the eventual collapse of the river’s ecosystem. Read the full story by the Investigative Post. View the full article

The shoreline of Point Pelee National Park in southern Canada acts as an ideal resting spot for thousands of migrating monarch butterflies as they prepare for the long flight across Lake Erie. Read the full story by CBC News. View the full article

Earlier this year, Enbridge applied for a permit to add 48 new anchor supports to its twin oil pipelines that run under the Straits of Mackinac. The supports help to secure the pipelines to the lakebed in places where strong currents have eroded the bottom. Read the full story by Michigan Radio. View the full article

In Michigan, representatives from several state and local agencies downplayed risks associated with PFAS exposure at a Cooper Township board meeting on Monday. Many drinking water sources in the area have confirmed PFAS levels near or above the federal advisory level. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

A massive factory under construction near Racine, Wisconsin, could have huge environmental repercussions for northern Illinois. Local lawmakers fear the plant will worsen flooding and threaten the region’s air and water. Read the full story by Chicago Magazine. View the full article

The Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, combine to form the largest freshwater port in the world. A new report estimates the ports created $1.4 billion in economic impact and supported 7881 jobs in 2017. Read the full story by the Superior Telegram. View the full article

The Black Bay area of northeast Thunder Bay in Ontario has been chosen for what’s being described as a “major” new conservation project by the Nature Conservancy of Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada. Read the full story by Thunder Bay News Watch. View the full article