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The lawsuit seeks to invalidate U.S. Coast Guard response plans for facilities such as Enbridge, which operates Line 5 beneath the Straits of Mackinac. Read the full story by The Detroit News. View the full article

Tuesday’s storms and brisk north winds are causing an upwelling in the lake – when cold water underneath the surface rises to the top. When it’s finished, water temperatures that topped 80 degrees at some beaches in the last week could be in the 50s by Wednesday afternoon. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

Though clearly frustrated by the state of Ohio’s response to toxic algal blooms that have carpeted western Lake Erie’s surface the past 23 summers, Senior U.S. District Judge James G. Carr said in open court Tuesday he worries he is on “thin ice” with the case before him. Read the full story by The Blade. View the full article

Bridge Magazine spoke with a senior scientist at LimnoTech about what has changed since the Toledo water scare in 2014 and what all shapes an algal bloom. Read the full story by Bridge Magazine. View the full article

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District started overflows of combined sanitary and storm sewers to local waterways late Monday as intense rains quickly filled the deep tunnel, district officials said. Read the full story by Journal Sentinel. View the full article

Voters will decide in November whether Toledo will form a regional water commission, but even if the proposal passes at the ballot box it remains unclear if any suburbs will join the new body. Read the full story by The Blade. View the full article

Steady rain and thunderstorm warnings in Toronto on Tuesday had residents bracing for waterlogged streets and transit delays for the third time in as many weeks, with the city saying it was prepared to respond quickly to urgent needs. Read the full story by Global News. View the full article

The National Park Service’s first director, Stephen Mather, sounded more like Blake than bureaucrat when, in 1916, he pitched the idea of making the Indiana Dunes lakeshore a national park. More than a century later, there’s a bipartisan push in Congress to elevate the Indiana Dunes’ status from national lakeshore to national park. Read the full story by The Chicago Tribune. View the full article

Plastic trash is littering the land and fouling rivers and oceans. But what we can see is only a small fraction of what’s out there. Since modern plastic was first mass-produced, 8 billion tons have been manufactured. And when it’s thrown away, it doesn’t just disappear. Much of it crumbles into small pieces. Read the full story by Great Lakes Today. View the full article

The Soo Locks is comprised of the Poe and MacArthur locks and for the last 49 years the Poe has been transporting large freighters between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes. And now, it is in desperate need of repair. Read full story by UP Matters. View the full article

The city of Algoma in Wisconsin is in the beginning stages of putting together an improvement plan for Crescent Beach in hopes of attracting more visitors. Read the full story by WBAY-TV – Green Bay, WI. View the full article

Lucas County, Ohio wants to become one of the plaintiffs in a landmark case filed against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over the future cleanup strategy for western Lake Erie. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade. View the full article

Two Ohio lawmakers who criticized Gov. John Kasich’s proposed farm regulations to combat Lake Erie’s harmful algae blooms will lead a panel of legislators studying the lake’s long-term health. Read the full story by the Associated Press. View the full article

A group of adventurers gathered encouraging community members to embrace the water around them. With the cancellation of the Two Harbors Kayakfest, the Northland Paddler Alliance took on the task of carrying on the tradition with the first ever Paddlefest in Duluth, Minnesota. Read the full story by Fox 21 News – Duluth. View the full article

A meeting in Nipigon, Ontario, last week involving Parks Canada staff, consultants and stakeholders in the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area focused on planning to improve access to the relatively new water park. Read the full story by CBC. View the full article

If you’re planning on heading to the beach on Tuesday, be careful: The National Weather Service predicts a low pressure system will whip up waves as high as 10 feet along Lake Michigan’s east coast tomorrow. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press. View the full article

Volunteers trudged into the water off the shoreline of Collingwood, Ontario with a clear target and plan of attack. They were there to chop down the invasive species known as phragmites. Read the full story by Barrie Today. View the full article

A public-private partnership that supports wildlife habitat restoration in the Great Lakes region has awarded $6.6 million to 25 projects. Read the full story by the Holland Sentinel. View the full article

Roughly 4,500 people participated in Sunday’s Port Huron and Sarnia Float Down, an annual, unsanctioned, and controversial event which involves people from both sides of the border floating down the St. Clair River in rafts, often better suited to swimming pools. Read the full story by CBC. View the full article

If you want a straw in Ashtabula, Ohio you’re going to have to ask for it. On Monday night, the City Council unanimously passed an ordinance that requires local restaurants to ask diners if they want straws before they put them in their drinks. Read the full story by WOIO-TV-Ashtabula, OH. View the full article

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be opening its largest research vessel to the public. The public will be able to tour the boat, Lake Guardian, while it is docked at the Valley Camp Dock in Sault Ste. Marie on Tuesday. Read the full story by Up North Live. View the full article

The National Weather Service is advising people not to swim in Lake Michigan on Tuesday or Wednesday. A beach hazard warning due to rip currents is in effect for Lake Michigan beaches in Illinois through Wednesday afternoon. Read the full story by WGN-TV-Chicago, IL. View the full article

Representatives from federal agencies, Enbridge, and industry and environmental groups testified on Line 5, oil spill prevention and preparedness at a Senate Commerce Committee field hearing in Traverse City, Michigan on Monday. Read the full story by Michigan Radio. View the full article

U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich.) will convene a field hearing on Monday morning in Michigan regarding Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline. The hearing will focus on emergency response plans for the Straits of Mackinac in the event of a leak in the pipeline. Read the full story by the Traverse City Record Eagle. View the full article

The $300 million-a-year Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is one Obama-era program that will survive the Trump Administration if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler, gets his way. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade. View the full article