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Carol Miller, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and the Director of Healthy Urban Waters at Wayne State University joins Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson to talk about the ways our health is tied to the condition of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WDET – Detroit, MI. View the full article

The Lake Guardian, the largest research vessel operating on the Great Lakes, is currently anchored at the Port of Rochester in New York, where its researchers have been collecting water samples from Lake Ontario. Read the full story by WROC-TV – Rochester, NY. View the full article

Gov. Rick Snyder and Lt. Gov. Brian Calley told President Trump in a letter released Monday that Michigan will commit $50 million for a second Soo lock to accommodate 1,000-foot freighters that haul iron ore and other bulk cargo between Lake Superior and the other Great Lakes, if the federal government takes the lead. Read the full story by The Associated Press. View the full article

Enbridge Inc. on Monday tried to sweeten the case for its proposed new pipeline across northern Minnesota, as state regulators began final deliberations on the controversial $2.6 billion project. Read the full story by the Journal Sentinel. View the full article

While agreeing more work needs to be done, the mayor of Toledo, Ohio, said the end of a no-contact advisory for the lower 8.8 miles of the Ottawa River is another big step forward in improving a western Lake Erie tributary once known as Ohio’s most polluted waterway. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade. View the full article

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker helped Manitowoc officials celebrate the groundbreaking for $4 million in repairs to the S.S. Badger dock. The S.S. Badger provides four-hour passage between Manitowoc and Ludington, Michigan, for passengers and vehicles. Read the full story by the Herald Times Reporter. View the full article

The 14 year-old federal program to restore the Great Lakes to a semblance of environmental health after decades of degradation and neglect is in the public spotlight this summer. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, or GLRI, is approaching its third iteration, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is conducting what it’s calling “public engagement sessions” for input on priorities for the period 2020 to through 2024. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now. View the full article

The revitalization of Toledo and the surrounding region has begun, but that revival is at a crucial point. To really redevelop the greater Toledo area is going to require regional cooperation on many issues but none is more important than clean, safe, reasonably priced water. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade. View the full article

A new oil transmission pipeline in a tunnel below the Straits of Mackinac, or buried on the lake bottom under feet of rock and other cover, would be feasible replacements to the existing, 65-year-old underwater pipelines where lakes Michigan and Huron meet, Canadian oil transport giant Enbridge states in an alternatives analysis submitted to the State of Michigan on Friday.. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press View the full article

A large complex of thunderstorms that parked out over Lake Michigan on Saturday afternoon produced what’s known as a meteotsunami. The term translates literally as a large wave caused by weather. Read the full story by WZZM-TV – Grand Rapids, MI. View the full article

New groundwater contamination has been found near Lake Michigan in northeastern Wisconsin, involving a group of chemicals that is raising concerns nationally about their effects on human health. Read the full story by the Journal Sentinel. View the full article

Dozens of lake sturgeon eggs captured from females near Port Huron, Michigan, and released in the Maumee River in Ohio became the first sturgeon immersed in the waterway in decades. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade. View the full article

On Wednesday, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources announced that a request for a hearing was approved regarding the city of Racine’s request to divert up to 7 million gallons of water per day to the village of Mount Pleasant, which will mostly be used for Foxconn. Read the full story by the Journal Times. View the full article

State records show the Trump International Hotel & Tower is one of the largest users of Chicago River water for its cooling systems, siphoning nearly 20 million gallons a day through intakes. Yet of the nearly dozen high-rises that rely on the Chicago River for cooling water, Trump Tower is the only one that hasn’t conducted a study of fish killed by the building’s water intakes – a step required five years ago by the Illinois EPA. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune. View the full article

Michigan would drop its own stringent ballast water discharge rules and adopt federal regulations for oceangoing freighters that transport goods in the Great Lakes under legislation approved this week by the Republican-led legislature. Read the full story by the Detroit News. View the full article

The 1,004-foot freighter American Spirit, loaded with iron ore pellets, ran aground in the Duluth harbor Sunday afternoon, closing the Aerial Lift Bridge to ship traffic. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune. View the full article

The Niagara Frontier is a land of bridges. And if the bridges themselves are not particularly spectacular, the places they span are — rushing waterways and international borders, vertiginous gorges and ship-choked canals, great lakes and thundering cataracts. Read the full story by WBFO – Buffalo, NY. View the full article

Free to a responsible owner: Lake Superior lighthouse. Sits at the end of the south breakwater adjacent to the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge. Contact the federal government. Read the full story by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. View the full article

Traverse City-based diver Chris Roxburgh enjoys sharing photos and videos of his underwater discoveries online. But he didn’t expect one discovery in particular to gain such popularity: A 1979 Ford Pinto sulking in the aquamarine waters of Grand Traverse Bay, covered in quagga mussels. Read the full story by MLive.com View the full article

The Michigan DNR is partnering with 10 others to monitor lake whitefish in the Great Lakes. They are the most important commercial fish species in the region, and a popular item at restaurants. Read the full story by 9 & 10 News. View the full article

American Victory, a freighter with a dark history on the Great Lakes and abroad, will fly a Canadian flag and journey to her final resting place in a Turkish scrapyard. It is an end which belies a lifetime of both distinction and despair. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune. View the full article

Cleveland kicked off the 38th annual competition June 14, which runs through June 24, with about 400 sailboats expected from throughout the Great Lakes and beyond. Read the full story by Cleveland.com. View the full article

Cleveland kicked off the 38th annual competition June 14, which runs through June 24, with about 400 sailboats expected from throughout the Great Lakes and beyond. Read the full story by Cleveland.com. View the full article

Environmental groups say a bill headed for Governor Rick Snyder’s desk could increase the amount of invasive species in the Great Lakes by loosening ballast water regulations. Read the full story by WNMU-FM – Marquette, MI. View the full article

Water levels on Lake Ontario are higher than the long-term average, but nowhere near those record-breaking highs of last year. A spokesperson for the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board expects to see lake levels declining in the short term if weather conditions cooperate. Read the full story by North Country Public Radio. View the full article