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The Canadian federal and Ontario provincial governments plan to crack down on the amount of phosphorus entering Lake Erie – an effort intended to help prevent harmful algae blooms from developing in the lake. An action plan aimed at cutting phosphorus pollution in the lake was released last week. Read the full story by CTV News. View the full article

Greg Boyer, from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, is part of a task force that New York’s governor has gathered to solve the problem. With almost $60 million in the budget, Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants the group to look at 12 New York lakes. Read the full story by North Country Public Radio. View the full article

After weeks of delays due to snow and extreme cold followed by unseasonable warmth, we gathered with approximately 50 racers at Michigan’s Lake Charlevoix for the stunning annual event. Read the full story by Rolling Stone. View the full article

Two U.S. Coast Guard ice breakers are on their way to make sure the much-needed fuel delivery makes it to Beaver Island, which sits in northern Lake Michigan nearly 27 miles northwest of Charlevoix, Michigan. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

Six once-pristine streams that flow into Lake Superior along the near Minnesota’s North Shore are officially impaired due to increased development, more erosion and too much silt in the water according to two reports released Monday by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune. View the full article

When news broke late last fall that the City of Milwaukee had reached an agreement to sell water to Waukesha, one could almost hear a gasp of surprise heard across the region. How is it possible that the leaders in the two historically opposed communities were able to reach across the “divide” and agree on such a major deal? Read the full story by On Milwaukee. View the full article

It has been a booming industry in the area for decades and it is why so many Great Lakes freighters dock here in Toledo over the winter. Read the full story by WTOL – Toledo, OH. View the full article

Blue ice doesn’t always stack up along the Great Lakes shoreline. But when it does form – and its irregular rectangles begin to tower with Michigan’s iconic Mackinac Bridge in the background – it sends photographers running for the perfect shot. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

Juan Alsace has made the Great Lakes one of his focal points since becoming the American consul general in Toronto. Among other initiatives to protect the largest fresh water system in the world, Alsace agrees with the Smart About Salt program that aims to put roadways on a low-salt diet. Read the full story by the Windsor Star. View the full article

Two years after Flint’s lead in drinking water issues finally boiled over and hit the national spotlight, emotions continue to run high on the topic, as evidenced by a gathering of activists and concerned citizens in Chicago on Feb. 13. Read the full story by the Great Lakes Echo. View the full article

A berm held fast in the face of rainfall as high as 7 inches in parts of northern Indiana last week. The 1.7-mile berm was constructed in 2015 to prevent Asian Carp from entering Lake Erie. Read the full story by the Detroit News. View the full article

Conservation groups in Wisconsin oppose a plan to divert 7 million gallons of Lake Michigan water every day for manufacturing of high-tech screens by Taiwanese company Foxconn. Opponents say it’s just the latest move to undercut the state’s environmental laws. Read the full story by Public News Service. View the full article

With this winter’s wide weather swings, it may be surprising for some to learn that the Great Lakes saw their ice cover percentage reach well above the average yearly peak. Read the full story by the Petoskey News-Review. View the full article

Michigan House Republicans are fast-tracking new Farm Bureau-drafted legislation that would shield data on agricultural water withdrawals from the public, and rework regulatory review of private groundwater extraction. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

The federal agency that keeps open shipping channels along Lake Erie has settled a long dispute with Ohio over what to do with sand, soil and mud scooped out of Cleveland’s harbor. What’s next for the state is getting rid of more than 1.2 million tons of sediment dredged from seven other ports each year before a new law bans dumping it in the lake by the summer of 2020. Read the full story by The Associated Press. View the full article

A Millcreek Township, Pennsylvania, resident is attempting to raise awareness of and have a statue erected honoring a U.S. Marine who died fighting alongside Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie. Read the full article by the Erie Times-News. View the full article

The Michigan Clean Marina Program will be conducting workshops and lessons this spring to educate attendees on best practices methods for petroleum control, waste disposal and marina management. Read the full story by the Petoskey News-Review. View the full article

The Michigan Clean Marina Program will be conducting workshops and lessons this spring to educate attendees on best practices methods for petroleum control, waste disposal and marina management. Read the full story by the Petoskey News-Review. View the full article

The Mackinac Bridge was closed this Sunday due to falling ice. The bridge was closed last Monday and again on Friday as large chunks of ice falling from cables and towers presented a public safety risk. The bridge reopened on Monday but retained a high wind warning. Read the full story by Up North Live. View the full article

Small pieces of plastic and foam topped a list of types of litter found along Canada’s shorelines last year, but Toronto is an outlier in this year’s tiny trash trend, with cigarette butts topping the city’s local Dirty Dozen list. Read the full story by CBC News. View the full article

In Ohio, a seemingly inordinate amount of dead fish, mostly carp and bass, washed up along Sandusky’s shoreline Thursday and it’s unknown how or why these fish died. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register. View the full article

In New York, Niagara County has signed on to a multi-county plan to explore additional dredging in harbors along Lake Ontario, seeing it as a necessity after last year’s high water levels. Read the full story by the Lockport Journal. View the full article

Minnesota utility regulators rejected a request by the state’s Ojibwe bands to require a comprehensive tribal cultural analysis for Enbridge’s proposed pipeline across northern Minnesota. Read the full story by the Star Tribune. View the full article

A new five-year commercial fishing agreement for the Georgian Bay and Lake Huron signed this week between Saugeen Ojibway Nation and the Ontario government extends the previous agreement with few changes. Read the full story by the Sun Times. View the full article

It’s looking more and more like, for the first time in four years, the popular Apostle Island Ice Caves on Lake Superior will not open due to the warm weather. Read the full story by KQDS-TV – Bayfield, WI. View the full article