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Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill Sunday that he says will help ensure Illinois citizens have safe, clean drinking water. The bill is designed to prevent future incidents like the water contamination discovered earlier this year in south suburban Crestwood, Ill. More...
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The City of Burlington and its contractor are at odds over the city's decision to replace 27 steel beams in its problem-plagued waterfront pier. More...
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Lansing - The Department of Natural Resources today announced that it has confirmed the presence of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia virus (VHSv) in samples of fish collected this spring in Baseline Lake in Washtenaw County and in Lake St. Clair. Baseline Lake becomes the second inland lake in Michigan in which VHSv is present. More...
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WASHINGTON, DC, August 21, 2009 (ENS) - The U.S. State Department has issued a permit for a multibillion-dollar pipeline to carry crude oil from Canadian oil sands to refineries south of the border, triggering a court challenge from environmental and native groups. More...
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Michigan has another perch that is becoming increasingly more common. A native of the Atlantic Coast, where it exists in both salt and freshwater, the white perch invaded the Great Lakes in 1950 through the Erie Canal. It is now established in all five Great Lakes, reaching Lake Michigan in 1988. More...
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Researchers at Cornell University Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point Friday announced the presence of a new, invasive species in Oneida Lake.They said more than a dozen Hemimysis anomala, a small mysid shrimp, also known as "bloody red shrimp," were identified by workers Thursday in the stomach of a white perch. More...
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Three Lakes Association serves the Chain of Lakes Watershed in Antrim County, Michigan, and has monitored water quality since 1966, identifying potential pollution sites and working with homeowners and local officials to solve problems. More...
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The mission of the Invasive Plant Association of Wisconsin is to promote better stewardship of the natural resources of Wisconsin by advancing the understanding of invasive plants and encouraging the control of their spread. More...
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GLIN Labs is hosting a free webinar on Tuesday, September 1 at 2pm (ET)! Curious as to what GLIN Labs has planned? Interested in getting involved in GLIN future planning, or just want to attend to see what's on the horizon? Come check out the free the webinar! More...
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GLIN's September Site of the Month is Great Lakes Legislative Priorities Tracking, a web-based tool that provides up-to-date information on Great Lakes legislative priorities. More...
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The Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition will meet Sept. 10-12 on the shores of Lake Superior to reunite with friends, celebrate our successes, and develop strategies to achieve our Great Lakes restoration goals for 2010 and beyond. More...
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LAKE SUPERIOR - Michigan Sea Grant Extension Coordinator Ronald Kinnunen gets excited when he looks out at the vast openness of Lake Superior. He knows that somewhere deep below the surface of the great Gichi-Gume swims the fatter siscowet lake trout.Kinnunen believes that number presents a huge untapped market to enter into the fish oil industry. More...
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As the Illinois Commerce Commission begins its inquiry on whether to grant Illinois American Water a proposed statewide rate increase, Bolingbrook officials investigate whether it's feasible to create their own water agency, a move aimed at lowering customer cost. More...
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The past 18 months has offered Ontarians a crash course in atomic energy. Ever since the McGuinty government announced its intention to expand the province's fleet of reactors, the public has been inundated by a flood of arguments examining the pros and cons of nuclear power. More...
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LAPEER -- The Lapeer City Commission agreed Monday evening to move forward with preliminary plans for the City of Lapeer to become an active member of a proposed regional water pipeline project to pump water from Lake Huron through Sanilac, Lapeer and Genesee counties. More...
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- For the first time in more than a century, scientists have found wild-born Atlantic salmon in a Lake Ontario tributary that once teemed with the fish. More...
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U.S. Sen. Carl Levin took a tour of Muskegon Lake's south shoreline to eyeball some of the spots slated for wetlands and shoreline restoration with a $10 million federal "stimulus" grant. More...
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With the help of a few million dollars, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hoping to turn millions of cubic yards of sediment dumped in Lake Erie every year into another Great Lakes island attraction. More...
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The global recession has hit the St. Lawrence Seaway hard, but it also faces a number of long-standing issues. Transportation has changed a great deal since the day the projectofficially opened. The seaway is having trouble adapting to the new reality. More...
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As much of the nation, and the world, deals with water shortages, the Chicago metropolitan region has no such issues thanks to our proximity to Lake Michigan, but that could all change as the population continues to climb. More...
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Some hope that the aerostat might be another valuable weapon in an annual battle to measure, understand and someday contain the growth of algae in the warm and shallow waters of western Lake Erie. More...
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Scientists recently discovered wild young Atlantic salmon in New York's Salmon River, a tributary to Lake Ontario. This is the first time in more than a century that salmon produced naturally in the wild have been found in what was once New York's premier salmon stream More...
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed initial safety testing for navigation on the electric Aquatic Nuisance Species Dispersal Barrier in coordination with the U.S. Coast Guard. More...
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Sustain Our Great Lakes works to restore, protect and preserve the fragile habitats and ecosystems that form the world's largest freshwater system. Their new website features funding opportunities, project overviews and more. More...
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This report by the National Parks Conservation Association provides information on how climate change is affecting wildlife. Information specific to Great Lakes birds and invasive species can be found on pages 22-25 of the report. More...