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The highest-ranking official to face criminal charges for the Flint, Michigan, water crisis is still on active duty as the director of Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services, causing community leaders to question the approach. Read the full story by City Lab. View the full article

A coalition of government and business groups from states, provinces, port authorities, and local tourism agencies is kicking off a campaign to attract cruise ships to the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Associated Press. View the full article

President Trump won the 2016 election in the Great Lakes states, but the proposed budget cuts, reductions in marine sanctuary acreage, and rollbacks on the Clean Water Act amount to a war on the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press. View the full article

The Wisconsin Historical Society’s traveling display “Great Lakes Small Streams: How Water Shapes Wisconsin” will come to Spring Valley, Wisconsin, and will exhibit Wisconsin’s long relationship with water and the impact we have had on our vast waterways. Read the full story by River Towns. View the full article

Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes with more than 2,700 miles of shoreline, is the latest body of water to come under increased scrutiny by scientists after the appearance this summer of the largest mass of green, oozing algae ever detected on the lake. Read the full story by The New York Times. View the full article

Jane Corwin, a former New York State Assembly member, was nominated by President Trump Tuesday to chair the International Joint Commission, the binational agency governing Great Lakes issues. Read the full story by The Buffalo News. View the full article

Due to climate change, loons might vanish from Ottawa, Ontario, in about 20-30 years, according to new research by the National Audubon Society. Researchers believe that global warming effects will force the bird to move farther north to avoid increasing temperatures. Read the full story by Great Lakes Ledger. View the full article

Lake Erie has no sea monsters, but it may house a Lake Serpent. The Lake Serpent, that is. After weeks of underwater excavation, a team of researchers and volunteers is inching closer to ruling on whether a wreck recently found near Kelley’s Island is in fact the Lake Serpent, a ship known to have sunk in 1829. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer. View the full article

Transmitters implanted in Lake Erie walleye revealed that fish born in the western side of the lake roam widely, while those born closer to Buffalo spend their lives in the cooler waters of the eastern basin. Regardless of these movements, researchers report that fish populations are doing well throughout the lake. Read the full story by The Buffalo News. View the full article

Elevated levels of PFAS found in two areas of the Flint River in 2013 don’t mean the contaminants were ever present in nearby drinking water, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality says. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

Harmful algal bloom outbreaks are increasing in frequency and severity from Ohio to Alaska to Florida to Massachusetts, killing fish, closing beaches and sickening people across the United States, witnesses told a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday. Read the full story by Cleveland.com. View the full article

Beachgoers tend to ignore warnings which ask people not to swim for safety purposes, according to a recent report from the University of Windsor’s dean of science. Read the full story by CBC News. View the full article

Killarney Provincial Park is gearing up for a September celebration to mark the designation of the park as a Dark Sky Preserve. This designation is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, and recognizes areas that take control of local lighting to limit light pollution that reduces visibility of the night sky. Read the full story by CBC News. View the full article

Leaf peeping is an ideal excuse for a road trip in the fall, when fiery-hued maples and bright yellow aspens span the Midwest, creating a picture-perfect autumn tapestry. Here are a half-dozen foliage-friendly Midwest getaways chosen for their tree-lined roads and proximity to orchards, cider, and donuts! Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune. View the full article

There is a growing concern among many over the lack of adequate upkeep and questions about the necessity of continuing operation of the Line 5. Line 5 is 65 years old. It runs under, over and through the entire state of Michigan. It is showing signs of decomposition and has a history of 29 documented leaks totaling over 1 million gallons. Read the full story by the Daily Press, Escanaba. View the full article

Ground was broken for a new beach in the city of Detroit on Monday afternoon. Atwater Beach, located off of Atwater St. just east of Chene Park, is expected to be a one-of-a-kind urban beachfront, featuring a sandy beach, playscape, grassy area with trees and a shed structure for programs and events. Read the full story by WXYZ, Detroit. View the full article

A quick resolution to the labor dispute is something port officials would like to see before it disrupts the expected arrival of machinery for a $700 million iron-concentration plant now under construction near the port. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade. View the full article

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, has awarded a construction contract for major repairs at the Soo Locks. Roen Salvage Company of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., was awarded the contract for more than $1.9 million to replace mooring bollards and bollard foundations at the facility. Read the full story by FOX UP, Michigan. View the full article

Although this summer’s algal bloom will likely linger in western Lake Erie until at least mid-October, the odds of having algal toxins show up in tap water now are dissipating with each passing day, according to an Ohio Sea Grant and Ohio State University Stone Laboratory research coordinator. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade. View the full article

Ohio’s Lake Erie charter boat industry has suffered major losses because of harmful algal blooms and charter boat captains want action, not further studies, according to the president of the Lake Erie Charter Boat Association. Read the full story by Sandusky Register. View the full article

Rob Portman has been active for years in Lake Erie issues, believes climate change is real and needs action and won the 2016 Clean Water Award from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies. So how did the Ohio Republican, two years into his second term as a U.S. senator, manage to get a 0 percent rating in 2017 for environmental votes scored by the League of Conservation Voters? Read the full story by Sandusky Register. View the full article

Workers continued a dredging project Monday at Sodus Point, New York, the first dredging there since 2004. A Michigan-based company is working to remove nearly 58,000 cubic yards of material from the navigation channel that connects Sodus Bay to Lake Ontario. Read the full story by RochesterFirst.com. View the full article

The hot and dry weather conditions haven’t just caused people’s yards to turn brown, they’ve also had an impact on the water levels in lakes in Northeast Michigan. Read the full story by the Alpena News. View the full article

The White House announced Monday that Trump intends to nominate Jane Corwin, a Buffalo-area businesswoman who served four terms in the state Assembly, to the U.S.-Canada organization tasked with overseeing Lake Ontario and other shared waterways between the two countries. Read the full story by Auburpub.com. View the full article

Delay has been the watchword in dealing with Lake Erie’s algae problems. Little of substance has been done to combat algae, and the U.S. EPA continues to push back on stiff regulations that could have a positive impact. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now. View the full article