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Travel Michigan, the state's tourism advertising agency, is asking the public to participate in a contest to create print ads or videos promoting the Great Lakes State. More...
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If deer are raised on farms or hunted on preserves, deer farmers have prodded lawmakers to introduce bills to have the Ohio Depart. of Agriculture take over from the Ohio Div. of Wildlife. A fly in the ointment is that neither state agency wants that to happen. More...
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The Great Lakes are under assault from foreign invaders according to Jennifer McKay, policy specialist with Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council in Petoskey. More...
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U.S. Steel Gary Works treated and destroyed 10,000 pounds of benzene over three months in the fall as the company worked on preventing contaminated groundwater from leaking into Lake Michigan. The company still has "multiple years" of treatment to go. More...
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As the sprawl slows, Southeast Michigan is beginning to re-naturalize. Through building codes, business development practices, and smart environmental management our green spaces are expanding. More...
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A massive venture capital fund that pumps money into Great Lakes businesses is crucial for the economy of the region to move beyond its Rust Belt status, says a white paper released Friday by the Brookings Institution public policy think tank. More...
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In a joint letter to the U.S. and Canadian governments, a bi-national coalition of conservation groups warned that the renegotiation of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was proceeding too swiftly and did not allow for meaningful public comment and participation. More...
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Waukesha could become the first community entirely outside the Great Lakes drainage basin to request a diversion of water under terms of a 2008 Great Lakes protection compact. Waukesha must show it lacks an adequate supply of safe drinking water. More...
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In coming years, global warming will have a bizarre, seemingly incongruous impact on winters here in the Great Lakes region: shorter, milder cold seasons coupled with bigger winter storms. More...
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A group of Michigan state House lawmakers, calling themselves the Shoreline Caucus, hopes personal stories will influence the U.S. Supreme Court. The caucus plans to submit an amicus brief in support of Michigan's lawsuit to stop the carp. More...
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A proposed project to remove the Paint Creek Dam received support from the Oakland Township Board of Trustees. The dam is considered a barrier for fish passage, preventing all fish, mussels and sediment deposits from heading upstream. More...
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Parks Canada is mapping out a marine conservation area along the North Shore of Lake Superior; they are working on plans to establish a National Marine Conservation Area in a 10,000-square kilometre area. More...
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The Ontario provincial government is currently reviewing the environmental assessment on plans to expand the pipe that takes sewage from York Region to a Pickering water treatment plant before going into Lake Ontario. More...
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The Indiana State Senate Committee on Natural Resources unanimously approved S.B. 339 to merge the Lake Michigan Marina Development Commission and the Shoreline Development Commission, which both deal with development along the Lake Michigan shoreline corridor. More...
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A proposed project to remove the Paint Creek Dam received support from the Oakland Township Board of Trustees. The dam is considered a barrier for fish passage, preventing all fish, mussels and sediment deposits from heading upstream. More...
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The Cleveland Metroparks system may be one of the last assets in Northeast Ohio that remains the envy of the nation, and the park commissioners believe they have chosen a new executive director capable of guiding the Emerald Necklace. More...
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Parks Canada is mapping out a marine conservation area along the North Shore of Lake Superior; they are working on plans to establish a National Marine Conservation Area in a 10,000-square kilometre area. More...
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The threat posed by Asian carp to the Great Lakes is real and needs to be addressed. There is no doubt that should the carp enter Lake Michigan it will devastate Michigan's environment and economy. More...
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Ontario's natural resources ministry remains watchful after the second Scarborough supermarket in a year was fined for possessing live bighead carp. It is illegal to sell or have a live bighead because of the extreme damage the species could do to the ecology of Lake Ontario and other waterways. More...
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An Illinois task force on the Chicago area's long-term water needs issued hundreds of recommendations for businesses and residents to start conserving now to prevent future shortages. More...
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Mich. Gov. Jennifer Granholm and the rest of Michigan are in a bind. They don't want the carp to gain a foothold in the Great Lakes, but are nearly powerless to stop that result. More...
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The director of the Ohio Canal Corridor is now more desperate than ever to find a way across 55 acres along the Cuyahoga River to build one of the final legs of the long-anticipated hiking and biking trail. More...
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A thin layer of new ice formed over Qubec, Canada's, St. Lawrence River in mid-January 2010. This image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite on January 17, shows the mouth of the river. More...
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The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has issued the wastewater permit for U.S. Steel Gary Works, the agency announced Friday. The issuance marks the end of a nearly seven-year process, during which IDEM has released three drafts. More...
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Ludington City Manager John Shay said the city council, which met Monday, is not currently scheduled to hear a presentation about a proposal to build a 100-square-mile wind farm in Lake Michigan off shore from southern Mason County and northern Oceana County. More...