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As interest continues to grow in wind power in West Michigan, a study by a Grand Valley State University research team will play a major role. The team will look at advantages and disadvantages of wind power generating facilities in Muskegon, Ottawa and Allegan counties. More...

Area boaters could do more to try to get federal funding to dredge shallow water harbors, government officials and others say. About three dozen people attended a Wednesday meeting of the Ohio Coalition of Shallow Draft Harbors sponsored by the Lake Erie Marine Trades Association. More...

Due to changes in Transport Canada regulations, barges can now travel in open water beyond Prince Edward County eastward to the Port of Oshawa. From that Port, grain can be transported across the lake to Buffalo, other U. S. markets and exported through the St. Lawrence Seaway. More...

A U.S. power developer is forging ahead with plans to build a massive natural gas plant next to the Nanticoke coal-fired generating station on Lake Erie, betting that the government will desperately need the project as a way to meet its 2014 deadline for phasing out coal power. More...

Red Cliff tribal members used a spiritual smudge-smoke ceremony Wednesday night to explain why Lake Superior and clean water are so important to them and why they have resurrected the search for barrels dumped in the big lake. More...

Widening the St. Lawrence Seaway locks and deepening the channels in the river as envisioned by expansion enthusiasts would have adversely affected water levels, hampered homeowners, endangered wildlife and jeopardized the tourism industry. More...

Canadian divers have found what they believe is the wreck of a U.S. seaplane that sank in the St. Lawrence River in November 1942, and there may still be human remains aboard. More...

Congress is getting ready to vote on legislation that could pump up to $475 million into funding for Great Lakes restoration. More...

As we become more familiar with invasive species in our area, the next question that arises may be, "What is being done to stop them?" By nature, invasive species are extremely difficult to control - they are adaptive, lack natural predators, reproduce rapidly, and thrive in disturbed ecosystems. There have been success stories with efforts to control certain invaders, while we fight an ongoing battle with many others. Let's take a look at some of the projects in place today. More...

Wolfe Island, one of Ontario's more tranquil refuges, has been turned into a wind-turbine theme park. Eighty-six wind turbines now tower over a flat little land mass only 35 kilometres long and 10 wide, dwarfing churches that once claimed pride of stature. More...

PICKERING -- Durham's getting more than $93 million worth of help from the feds and the Province to upgrade the Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control Plant in Pickering. More...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the non-profit group Minnesota Environmental Initiative, or MEI, $3 million in federal stimulus funding to address air pollution accountable to diesel vehicles. More...

The much-heralded nuclear "renaissance" appears to have stalled this summer, at least temporarily -- not because of unsettled questions over the disposal of radioactive waste, or fear of nuclear accidents, but because the costs of building new reactors is proving prohibitive. More...

Pak Chung, 56, a herbalist, pleaded guilty to the August 2007 possession of 26 Blanding's turtles and one spotted turtle in violation of the federal Species At Risk Act. More...

HARBOR SPRINGS -- Preventing contamination and pollution from entering the Great Lakes locally was the topic of the 2009 Great Lakes Summit in Harbor Springs on Monday. More...

The city of Two Rivers, Wis., needs to dredge almost three times more sediment from its outer harbor than it was told by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in February, said the city manager. More...

Michael Cudahy has paid $1 million to lease a property where the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee wants to build a water research facility, seen by economic development leaders as a key part of plans to boost water research and industries in the Milwaukee area. More...

Congressman Dave Obey (D-WI) stopped in Superior, Wis., to take a look at the work being done at the ballast water treatment facility located on Montreal Pier. Obey secured the funding to establish the treatment facility and has since helped secure more than $3 million in federal funds. More...

We have witnessed the ecological destruction caused by Asian carp, and the accompanying financial burden, for many years. There are a number of things we can do to help keep the Great Lakes free of this invasive species. More...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced last month that it would begin tests for dioxin in Saginaw Bay water. Finally, probes for the chemical have moved beyond the Saginaw River and into the bay. More...

Green Energy Ohio is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promotingenvironmentally and economically sustainable energy policies and practices in Ohio. More...

Healthy waters offer a tremendous opportunity for reinvigorating the economy of the region, and boosting the competitiveness of the nations, the United States and Canada, as a whole. More...

Water clarity at least partially explains why Michigan's 10 underwater preserves, studded with hundreds of shipwrecks and beautiful natural formations, have become extremely popular with divers from across the country. More...

Like our Great Lakes, Michigan's economy will rise again if we enact smart energy policy. More...

The 2009 State of the Great Lakes report claims that concentrations of persistent organic pollutants such as PCBs and the pesticides we banned in the 1970s and '80s continue to decrease. But this is true only if the most toxic situation in the Great Lakes, Lake Superior's toxaphene pollution, is ignored. More...