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The Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force public meeting held in Cleveland last week focused on the need for an ecosystem-based management policy. More...

After three decades of promises by federal and state officials to force Dow to clean up their mess in mid-Michigan, the Obama administration is stepping in with a new plan intended to scour away decades of contamination that turned this area into one of the nation's most polluted sites. More...

'Pure Michigan' is the catch phrase for a successful advertising campaign for attracting millions of visitors and dollars to Michigan. But as you read this, exploration and permit applications are being processed for a new and different sort of mining at the head-waters of the Great Lakes. More...

Many argue that water must be viewed as a human right, not solely as a market commodity. More...

In the 20th century, the development of new infrastructure helped turn the U.S. into the greatest superpower the world has ever seen. More...

Focus on Energy works with eligible Wisconsin residents and businesses to install cost effective energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. More...

Chicago Wilderness is a regional alliance dedicated to protecting nature and enriching life in the Chicago metropolitan area. More...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public input on a Comprehensive Conservation Plan for Great Lakes islands managed as part of the National Wildlife Refuge System. More...

Officials exploring the potential delivery of Lake Michigan water to several inland communities in Lake County are stepping up efforts to educate the public on the issue. More...

A film on invasive species in Lake Huron is making its premiere near Lake Michigan. The movie "Lake Invaders: The Fight for Lake Huron," is a documentary produced by faculty and students at Grand Valley State University. More...

With the Knife River discharging right into Lake Superior the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency hopes that public meetings will help the agency improve their pollution report and a possible solution to a cleaner Knife River. More...

Not much has been done to the weed-infested 14-acre brownfield property on the St. Mary's River which has been dormant for more than a decade. City officials have entertained a parade of a half-dozen wannabe developers who have either faded away or produced nothing. More...

Another $750,000 could go a long way to making emergency power and ultraviolet disinfection a reality at the Superior Wastewater Treatment Plant in Douglas County, Wis. More...

With the stroke of a pen on Friday, President Barack Obama swam to the rescue of the planet's largest group of freshwater lakes. More...

Federal and Michigan state agencies have now joined together in an extensive effort to gain control of phragmites. The most recent initiative, partially funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is the Lake St. Clair Phragmites Control Project. More...

Canada's only original equipment manufacturer of wind turbines of 1 megawatt and more has signed a letter of intent with Leader Resources Services Inc. for the delivery of a 1.65 MW wind turbine in Tiverton, Ontario. More...

Another $750,000 could go a long way to making emergency power and ultraviolet disinfection a reality at the Superior Wastewater Treatment Plant. More...

The moose-wolf study began in 1958. Durward Allen of Purdue University spent a decade learning how the two species seemed to be in balance, with each growing or declining at approximately the same rates. But that neat balance soon got messy, and the populations spiked and plunged over the decades with changes in snow depth, vegetation, diseases, parasites, higher summer temperatures and shorter winters. More...

CMS Land Company has applied to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to install and operate a deep injection well in Emmet County. More...

Canada's only original equipment manufacturer of wind turbines of 1 megawatt and more, has signed a letter of intent with Leader Resources Services Inc. for the delivery of a 1.65 MW wind turbine in Tiverton, Ontario. More...

In Detroit, a wildlife refuge is growing beneath a pair of towering red-and-white candy-striped smokestacks. More...

Luckily, Wisconsin and the Great Lakes have a champion in Congress, and he is in a position to ensure that the restoration of these inland oceans is completed. More...

Lobbying by Congressional representatives helped delay the U.S. EPA regulation requiring ships to burn low-sulphur fuel near U.S. coastlines, which was to begin in December. More...

Milwaukee, which has a lackluster record in luring new industry with tax breaks or subsidies, has a new plan up its sleeve: giving deeply discounted water to new companies that create jobs. More...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public review of a proposed agreement with Dow Chemical that establishes a process for evaluating dioxin contamination in Saginaw Bay, the Tittabawassee and Saginaw rivers and their floodplains. More...