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Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has been joined by his Minnesota and Ohio counterparts in a lawsuit the U.S. Supreme Court will take up Jan. 8. New York and Indiana are considering similar action. More...
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Great Lakes water levels may be more stable this summer than they've been in recent years. More...
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Federal regulators under President Barack Obama have sharply shifted course on long-standing policy toward pharmaceutical residues in the nation's drinking water, taking a crucial first step toward regulating some of the contaminants and acknowledging they could threaten human health. More...
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The St. Lawrence Seaway's 50th anniversary celebrations this year were overshadowed by one of the worst years for traffic in the waterway's history. More...
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A new marina will be built at Chicago's Gateway Harbor, between Navy Pier and the Chicago River's outlet to Lake Michigan. More...
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Ohio's big rivers, including the Cuyahoga, are getting cleaner. Today 93 percent of Ohio's large river miles are in full attainment of water-quality standards, compared with 79 percent in 2008, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency reports. More...
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GLIN's January Site of the Month is GLIN Labs, a virtual center for research and development of information technology tools to enhance decisionmaking to improve the health of the Great Lakes. More...
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As land protection director of the Grand Rapids-based Land Conservancy of West Michigan, she has spent more than a decade pushing to make the land public. On Tuesday, the dunes-preservation efforts of she and others came to fruition. The private-property signs were removed, replaced with "Nature Preserve." More...
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Workers at the Darlington nuclear station filled the wrong tank with a cocktail of water and a radioactive isotope Monday, spilling more than 200,000 litres into Lake Ontario. More...
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The Brown County Harbor Commission voted Monday to support a temporary causeway from Bay Beach to Renard Isle, and will await the city of Green Bay's decision on turning the island into a recreational area. More...
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EPA is soliciting comments on the draft Lake Superior Aquatic Invasive Species Complete Prevention Plan, by February 26, 2010. More...
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The U.S. EPA solicits proposals from eligible entities for grants and cooperative agreements to be awarded pursuant to a portion of the $475 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. The deadline for submission is Jan. 29, 2010. More...
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Indiana is currently not limiting the discharge of some pollutants in U.S. Steel's proposed new wastewater permit. That lack of limits was one critique of more than 20 written comments environmental groups, city and state officials and private individuals sent to the Indiana Dept. of Environmental Management. More...
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Fishing guides on many lakes across northern Minnesota would have to be fingerprinted and spend up to $1,300 on federal exams to help their clients catch walleyes under a new U.S. Coast Guard policy. More...
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Great Lakes shipping is winding down a turbulent season that saw freighters making fewer trips to transport fewer commodities. More...
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The levels of four Great Lakes are higher than a year ago and all except Lake Ontario should start next year's recreational boating season at or above last year's levels, according to two reports this month. More...
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The so-called Monguagon Daylighting and Wetland Restoration project at Wayne County's Refuge Gateway in Trenton has been completed. The improvement re-created six acres of wetlands in an area that had lost 97 percent of its coastal wetlands to development. More...
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Wisconsin summers will get hotter and winters more rainy and icy if weather patterns continue, setting into motion profound, widespread environmental changes. That sobering conclusion was made earlier this month by graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, studying climate change. More...
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Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is stoking the fires of a regional war between Great Lakes states. More...
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The last ocean-going ship of the season left the Duluth-Superior port this week, marking the end of a tough season for the so-called "salty" traffic. More...
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The Erb Family Foundation recently announced its first grants of more than $1 million since the charity began making major grants last year. The included a grant of $450,000 to the National Wildlife Federation to support the Healing our Waters Coalition, and $170,000 to the Nature Conservancy to hire a policy associate focused on the Great Lakes. More...
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Wisconsin summers will get hotter and winters more rainy and icy if weather patterns continue, setting into motion profound, widespread environmental changes. That sobering conclusion was made earlier this month by graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, studying climate change. More...
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The once-radical idea of somehow plugging the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to stop the flow of unwanted species from spilling between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basin is quickly picking up political support. More...
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Plans to move the Great Lakes Historical Society's museum from Vermilion to Toledo took another step forward yesterday when the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority's board of directors approved a "memorandum of understanding" about a lease for space in the port-owned Toledo Maritime Center. More...
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Michigan legislators are working hard in Congress to make sure their colleagues are aware of the danger the Asian carp present to the Great Lakes, a national and world treasure. More...