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The city Light & Water Commission has agreed to spend up to $756,000 for the design and installation of a water aeration system capable of removing toxic chemicals from water in one of the city's municipal wells. More...
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Zion Station sat in limbo for more than a decade, and Commonwealth Edison, now part of Exelon, paid about $10 million a year to baby-sit the defunct reactor.Now, though, the company is trying out a radical new approach to decommissioning the plant. More...
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Detroit Edison has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) that will continue to add Michigan-based renewable power to the company's energy portfolio. More...
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The feds are selling a couple of light stations in Wisconsin, and for the price of 10 or 25 grand, one could be yours. Up for auction are the Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse and the Kenosha North Pierhead Light. More...
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The work could begin in early- or mid-January, assuming the company is granted the necessary permits, Joe Martucci, the project's spokesman said. Once the project starts, it will take six to eight weeks to complete. More...
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Fish and wildlife specialists say the state will have a plan in three years to manage the threat of Asian carp invading the Great Lakes. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment held a summit today to discuss the threat of Asian carp. More...
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There are nearly 10,000 fewer pounds of litter in northern Erie County after a record 1,321 volunteers pitched in for this year's Pennsylvania-Lake Erie International Coastal Cleanup effort, according to the Department of Environmental Protection, which today announced the results of the 8th annual event. More...
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Zion Station sat in limbo for more than a decade, and Commonwealth Edison, now part of Exelon, paid about $10 million a year to baby-sit the defunct reactor.Now, though, the company is trying out a radical new approach to decommissioning the plant. More...
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Cracks and fissures in a newly built concrete slab where old car engines are dismantled led to the leakage of oil into an east-end creek.Oil seeped under the concrete receptacle, flowed behind the building and into the Little Rouge Creek without anyone noticing, he said. More...
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Detroit Edison has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) that will continue to add Michigan-based renewable power to the company's energy portfolio. More...
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Congress is likely to approve a wording change allowing the U.S. Navy to move forward with a plan to buy littoral combat ships from two builders, including Marinette Marine Corp. in Marinette. More...
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The amount of cargo coming through the Port of Toledo is up double digits so far this year and port leaders say the number could go even higher because they're expecting a strong finish in 2010. More...
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Environmental groups have one last chance to convince Canada's nuclear-energy watchdog to reject a plan to haul 16 decommissioned radioactive steam generators across the Great Lakes on their way to Sweden for recycling. More...
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Vital for our survival, of course, clean water also underlies Wisconsin's robust tourism industry (which has been growing during these recession years) and is critical to water-intensive manufacturing processes. The legal structure that makes this possible is the federal Clean Water Act. More...
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U.S. Steel Midwest's new draft wastewater permit for its northwestern Indiana steel mill will not increase its pollution into Lake Michigan because the permit imposes stricter limits for several pollutants, state regulators said. More...
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Illinois has ample farmland well-suited for wind farms, and a law mandating that the state get at least 18 percent of its electricity from wind power by 2025. But the byzantine process by which an obscure state agency decides where that wind power comes from has stalled development of new wind farms. More...
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NOAA announced recently that it has awarded about $9.2 million to nine projects throughout the Great Lakes Region that will restore fish habitat by removing dams and barriers, constructing fish passage, restoring wetlands, removing marine debris and invasive species. More...
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The effort to reduce sediment clouding the North Shore's Poplar River got a boost this fall in a federal Great Lakes Restoration grant to reduce erosion. The project will be explained to the public Saturday in Lutsen. More...
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Enbridge Energy Partners has shut the Lakehead Pipeline 6B due to anomalies found in the line in Ingham county. This is the same pipeline that ruptured in late July in Marshall, spewing an estimated one million gallons of crude oil into the Kalamazoo River and a tributary, Talmadge Creek. More...
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An international sustainability nonprofit is using Grand Rapids as a yearlong case study by giving city leaders a new data planning process to help them prepare for changing climate. More...
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Cleveland City Councilman Mike Polensek told regional sewer officials Thursday that he understands both sides of an increasingly dramatic debate over a pending $3 billion settlement with EPA that will triple sewer rates in the city and more than 60 suburbs. More...
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A real-time, online checklist, eBird has revolutionized the way that the birding community reports and accesses information about birds. Birdwatchers in the Great Lakes and beyond can sign up to report sightings and view research tools. More...
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Greenway commission endorses Grand Island, Lockport projects
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Plans for a new, 230-acre park on Grand Island and a new nature preserve in Lockport were among the five projects endorsed this week by a state-appointed panel. More... -
The U.S. Senate has approved legislation that sponsors say aims to fight the spread of Asian carp into the Great Lakes. More...
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Soil laden with arsenic and mercury appears to have run off during a rainstorm from a Lansing Board of Water and Light facility into the Grand River in Lansing. More...