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Detroit has possibly been stealing Canadian water for 44 years. It seems the Motor City's drinking-water intake pipe extends about 100 yards across the international boundary in the Detroit River, and it's been siphoning as much as 32 billion gallons a year since 1964 without a water-taking permit. More...
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If Detroit's been stealing our water, we've been an aware and willing victim for 45 years. Despite published reports to the contrary, Detroit has had the Canadian government's permission since 1963 to locate its intake pipe near Fighting Island. More...
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North Olmsted, OH -- Capturing the wind and turning it green are the goals of city and school officials, who are mapping plans to build a wind turbine. More...
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Registration is now available for Great Lakes Days in Washington, an annual event featuring presentations and dialogue on Great Lakes priorities by regional leaders and members of Congress. The events take place Feb. 23-25, 2009. More...
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The final two Welland Canal locks will be overhauled with hydraulic equipment after the waterway closes for the winter Tuesday. More...
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A potential threat to some prime fishing grounds in southern Lake Huron has been eliminated, Sarnia-Lambton MP Pat Davidson says. More...
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Consider this as a mascot for the Genesee River's ongoing recovery: the lake sturgeon. Overfishing and pollution caused them to almost disappear, but now the fish are growing and there are no indications of outright juvenile mortality, More...
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Cleanup of the Ottawa River, polluted by decades of dumping from Toledo's manufacturing economy, could move ahead with an offer by the city of Toledo to use its Hoffman Road Landfill to dispose of material dredged from the waterway. More...
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This holiday season, with the inauguration around the corner, there's a new spirit of bipartisanship and hope in our nation's capital. With it comes the hope that lawmakers will manage our natural resources by thinking more about public interests than special interests. More...
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Regardless of what you might hear and might be told - the deer population of St. Joseph Island is taking a licking. More...
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For years, the Michigan Attorney General's Office Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Division has worked behind the scenes to protect Michigan's environment and the Great Lakes -- and at the same time make money for the state's coffers. More...
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Wind energy resource maps are estimates of wind resources and are based primarily upon computer modeling. These maps are intended to be suggestive of areas within Michigan that may be suitable for wind generators. More...
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The Clean Energy Coalition, based in southeastern Michigan, is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting clean energy technologies as a way to create healthier, energy independent communities. More...
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FutureGen was going to usher in a new era of coal-fired power plants by serving as the prototype for ones that could emit little, if any, air pollution. Then the Bush Administration claimed the program had become too expensive and killed it. But with the change in administration, the project may see new light. More...
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The Ohio Lake Erie Commission has awarded nearly $30,000 to support two projects that address climate change and sustainable development priorities related to Lake Erie and its watershed. The commission oversees the Ohio Lake Erie Protection Fund, which funds these projects. More...
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The Pentwater Village Council recently approved a grant agreement for construction of a fishing pier at the end of Fourth Street, to be completed by July. The council unanimously approved the resolution accepting a grant from the Great Lakes Fishery Trust. More...
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The Central Brown County Water Authority filed a lawsuit Dec. 4 in Brown County Circuit Court against Consoer Townsend Envirodyne Engineers, which was hired first to investigate the alternatives and later to plan, design and oversee construction of a Lake Michigan water pipeline to six Green Bay suburbs. More...
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Earlier this year, experts confirmed the presence of the zebra mussel inside a pipe connecting a hydroelectric plant to a lake on the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. The finding was the first for the invasive species in the lower Susquehanna River Basin and a warning to the eastern half of Pennsylvania. More...
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Seventeen years ago, Bay City acquired a PCB-polluted plot from Consumers Energy, and still the site of the old Water Street Substation remains in legal limbo. Is it clean, or not? More...
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The city may be in a perfect position: Not only is Flint taking the lead on producing a new alternative energy, but it also is developing the most popular green energy -- biofuel. More...
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For the next two years, the Wisconsin Assembly will have a Natural Resources Committee chaired by Spencer Black (D-Madison) to deal with environmental issues such as air quality, water pollution and global warming. And fish and wildlife will get its own stage. More...
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About 50 people attended a meeting with state environmental officials Tuesday night, seeking more information on expansion plans at the Holland BPW's coal-to-energy James De Young Plant. More...
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This report seeks to highlight the multiple challenges and opportunities for action to vastly increase our nation's renewable energy generation and connect this clean energy to the grid via advanced electrical transmission construction. More...
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The Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources and U.S. EPA were at odds over the EPA's proposed ship water pollution permit, with state officials saying the EPA rules didn't go far enough to protect Wisconsin waters from foreign species carried in ships' ballast. More...
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Instead of Tri-Cities, Saginaw Valley, or Mid-Michigan, leaders in Michigan's Bay, Midland and Saginaw counties would like to hear, "The Great Lakes Bay Region" when referring to this area. More...