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U.S Mint released the 42nd coin in the America the Beautiful Quarters Program featuring Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Read the full story by WKOW-TV – Madison, WI. View the full article

Michigan has been granted nearly $1 million by the U.S. EPA to build two rock reef formations in the Saginaw Bay. Rock reefs provide protective spawning grounds and nursery habitats key to walleye and whitefish, and are expected to bolster those populations. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

Operation Coal Shovel which breaks ice in Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, southern Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River ended Monday. The larger ice-breaking operation, Operation Taconite, continues through the northern Great Lakes. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI. View the full article

The first oceangoing vessel of the 2018 commercial navigation season, the Federal Weser, arrived at the port of Duluth-Superior at around 9:41 p.m. on Thursday. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune. View the full article

The Foxconn water fight is a reminder that potable, accessible freshwater is poised to become this century’s defining natural resource and that water stress will not be limited to the planet’s most arid areas. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. View the full article

History officials in Michigan want historical areas to better reflect Native Americans’ contributions to the Great Lakes state. Read the full story by Capital News Service. View the full article

Culling season is coming quickly for the double-crested cormorant after it received a one-year reprieve. Almost all culling was suspended last year after a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had failed to adequately assess its impact. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo. View the full article

Michigan governor Rick Snyder wants to shut down Enbridge Line 5 after his office said Wednesday that an unidentified ship’s anchor likely damaged the line under the Straits of Mackinac and another line that caused fluid to leak into the water last week. Read the full story by The Detroit News. View the full article

In a decision hailed by environmental advocates as a major victory for clean drinking water, Senior U.S. District Judge James G. Carr accused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency of botching the Lake Erie impairment controversy. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade. View the full article

Stopping a large freighter requires dropping a large anchor, and while don’t-anchor-here signs exist and dangerous pipelines are marked on nautical charts, mistakes happen. Pipelines should not be exposed on the bottom of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Times Herald. View the full article

For the planned Foxconn manufacturing factory to access Great Lakes water as a customer of Racine, Wisconcin, it must to make a case to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, as part of a permitting process the state is required to undertake as a party to the Compact.The Wisconsin Legislature and Governor Scott Walker are generally in favor of fast-tracking the Foxconn deal process, and the DNR faces political pressure to make business-friendly decisions. Read the full story by WisContext. View the full article

While considering a permit to allow the Nestle Corporation to pump groundwater, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality received more than 80,000 public comments opposing the new Nestle permit, and only 75 supporting it — but signed off on the permit anyway. Read the full story by Michigan Public Radio. View the full article

The April pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is Dan Egan’s “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes.” In annotations to a portion of his book explaining the devastation wreaked by the quagga mussel, Egan describes the challenge of conveying how damaging a tiny and seemingly harmless species can be, and more. Read the full story by PBS. View the full article

According to a group of environmental and natural resource experts from federal, state and tribal agencies, Lake Huron is in “fair condition” overall, with problems such as invasive species, fish consumption restrictions and loss of habitat accounting for the average score. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

New data released show dangerous levels of pollution in groundwater at three Northwest Indiana coal-fired plants, the Hoosier Environmental Council said. Read the full story by The Northwest Indiana Times. View the full article

In Ontario, the Essex Region Conservation Authority issued a statement warning of a flooding outlook with possible shore erosion and breakwall damage for much of Lake Erie’s northern shoreline due to high winds generating large waves. Read the full story by the Windsor Star. View the full article

In Michigan, dozens of Flint residents angry about the state’s decision to end a free bottled water program took their outrage to the state capitol on Wednesday. The protest comes amid assertions by Gov. Rick Snyder that the levels of lead in Flint’s water are below the federal limit. Read the full story by CNN. View the full article

Wisconsin is regularly at the center of Great Lakes water politics, but it’s not the only place where controversies arise. Amid intense local and state-level battles over Waukesha’s plan to source Lake Michigan water, and Foxconn’s planned factory in Mount Pleasant, these issues attract regional and international attention. Read the full story by Urban Milwaukee. View the full article

A river that once caught fire is once again among those under the microscope for pollution pouring into the Great Lakes. While fire is no longer a concern for Ohio’s Cuyahoga River, pollution is still a big part of the conversation. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo. View the full article

A new study finds that levels of PCBs are declining in the air in the Great Lakes region,except for one kind. It’s called PCB-11, and its levels are holding steady. Read full story by Michigan Radio. View the full article

One day, Detroit’s West Riverfront Park will allow Detroiters to do what they cannot do almost anywhere along the river except on Belle Isle — put their toes in the water. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press. View the full article

The few dozen folks on Neebish Island, off the eastern tip of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, are having their mettle tested as suspension of the ferry service that connects them to the mainland stretches into its second week. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

Ogdensburg City Council in Ontario gave official support to an Ogdensburg-Prescott bicycle ferry that would run across the St. Lawrence River following a visit from Canadian officials Monday. Read the full story by North County Now. View the full article

Ohio’s Vermilion Harbor is supposed to be dredged every two to three years, but hasn’t required dredging for five years due to high water levels in Lake Erie, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer. View the full article

An Ann Arbor actor and filmmaker has created a two-part documentary examining the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline and the risks it could pose to the Great Lakes. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article