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At the County Legislature's regular August business meeting, the 24 lawmakers present passed a resolution creating the Lake Erie Management Commission. More...

Nearly 30 people turned out Monday night to weigh in on plans for managing the world's largest spit of sand as a steering committee begins a year-long process to develop a management plan for Wisconsin Point. More...

If it takes a surcharge to keep an important regional water monitoring system in operation, so be it. Safeguarding the water quality of the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River is a necessity. More...

At the County Legislature's regular August business meeting, the 24 lawmakers present passed a resolution creating the Lake Erie Management Commission. More...

Scientists know what causes the toxic blue-green algae that stain western Lake Erie every summer. It's phosphorus, a byproduct of sewage, fertilizers and manure. More...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $4.7 million in grants to groups and government agencies in Michigan for Great Lakes cleanup projects. More...

Toronto Councillor Doug Ford held private talks with real estate and business leaders and one of the world's largest mall operators to produce a proposal that will fundamentally change the publicly approved strategy for the eastern Port Lands. More...

Officials on Wednesday christened two new ships commissioned by the United States Geological Survey. They were built under an $8.2 million contract by Great Lakes Shipyard in Cleveland and funded with federal stimulus dollars. More...

The US Army Corps of Engineers is scheduled to begin a massive cleanup of the Buffalo River on Friday... a day which those who concern themselves with the river's environmental health have worked for close to 20 years to see. More...

U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack said Wednesday he has sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency outlining concern for New York's upcoming ballast water regulations for commercial vessels. More...

The Corps is analyzing which of those secondary routes pose the biggest threats -- a task that became more urgent this month with the discovery of Asian carp DNA in the St. Croix River. More...

Port Huron water inlet. Funds for a water monitoring system are running out. Officials have been meeting to try to come up with a plan to save it. More...

State fisheries crews completed the 34th annual late summer yellow perch trawling surveys on Green Bay Friday, collecting various sizes of fish and species for research during nine days on the water. Early indications are this year's class of perch was comparable to strong 2005 and 2009 year classes, though not as good as last year's 2010 hatch, the third-highest on record. More...

GLIN's September Site of the Month is Great Lakes Week: Detroit 2011, a week of Great Lakes activities bringing representatives of the U.S. and Canadian governments together with public and private groups to highlight Great Lakes issues. Great Lakes Week takes place Oct. 11-14. More...

Rochester's city officials are seeking proposals from companies interested in developing a Harbor Master Plan for the Genesee River stretch approaching Lake Ontario. More...

In a public letter, Mayor of Cleveland Frank Jackson, announces that Greater Cleveland has the potential to become the national leader in the growing renewable energy economy because of local efforts to develop the first freshwater wind farm in the country and that The city of Cleveland fully supports the creation of this offshore wind farm. More...

The Pennsylvania Coastal Resources Management Program is now accepting applications for projects that manage the impact of development and other activities on coastal areas, including Lake Erie. State agencies, local governments and authorities, schools and universities and nonprofits are eligible. More...

The St. Clair River Binational Public Advisory Council (BPAC) announced that the St. Clair River was delisted as one of 43 areas of concerns in the Great Lakes Basin. The group has been working since 1987 to clean up the river. More...

New York State intends to require a ship's ballast water to be 100 times cleaner than international standards by 2013, and eventually up to 1,000 times cleaner. More...

Last year, the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, which covers 448 square miles of Lake Huron off the northeast Lower Peninsula of Michigan, attracted 60,000 visitors and this year, it expects to draw even more. More...

VHS fish disease has not spread to new waters in 2011, a result Wisconsin state fisheries and invasive species officials credit to anglers and others following rules to prevent spreading the virus. More...

Last year, the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, which covers 448 square miles of Lake Huron off the northeast Lower Peninsula of Michigan, attracted 60,000 visitors and this year, it expects to draw even more. covers 448 square miles of Lake Huron off the northeast Lower Peninsula More...

Conservationists in the Chicago region say their efforts to protect natural resources must be adapted to environmental changes that are already under way. More...

Michigan Sea Grant Extension and the Lake St. Clair Tourism Development Program hope to make people more aware of their access to the water with their unveiling of the new Lake St. Clair Coastal Water Trail. More...

West Michigan faces a huge opportunity in establishing itself as a manufacturing, transportation, and service base for the wind energy industry. More...