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On Monday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service put chemicals into the water near the Croton Dam. These chemicals could ensure years of good fishing by killing off the sea lamprey. More...
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The Lake County Health Department and forest preserve district are urging Lake Michigan recreational boaters and anglers to follow new rules to ward off spreading a deadly fish virus to inland lakes. More...
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As droughts and population shifts to the South and West jack up demand for water in parts of the country that just don't have much of it, officials in Great Lakes states have done what governments often are criticized for doing too rarely: get proactive. More...
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Fishing was a hot topic at the St. Louis River Citizen Action Committee's first meeting on the Great Lakes Area of Concern on Thursday evening. More...
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A settlement has been reached between We Energies and environmental groups over the building of a coal-fired generating plant in Oak Creek. More...
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Local biologists are bracing for an outbreak of avian botulism, a paralytic disease that kills about 10,000 Great Lakes shorebirds every summer. More...
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As droughts and population shifts to the South and West jack up demand for water in parts of the country that just don't have much of it, officials in Great Lakes states have done what governments often are criticized for doing too rarely: get proactive. More...
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Fishing was a hot topic at the St. Louis River Citizen Action Committee's first meeting on the Great Lakes Area of Concern on Thursday evening. More...
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High energy prices might be a hot issue right now, but four state legislators Friday found that so is the environmental health of Lake Erie. More...
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A settlement has been reached between We Energies and environmental groups over the building of a coal-fired generating plant in Oak Creek.
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The Prospect Heights fight over Lake Michigan water will continue after eight residents decided to proceed with legal action against the $2.8 million project, continuing a battle which began last month. More...
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Lake Michigan water could be flowing to homes in the central third of New Berlin, Wis., by the end of the year. More...
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The Prospect Heights fight over Lake Michigan water will continue after eight residents decided to proceed with legal action against the $2.8 million project, continuing a battle which began last month. More...
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Lake Michigan water could be flowing to homes in the central third of New Berlin, Wis., by the end of the year. More...
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Personal income grew in metro Toledo last year, but not as much as in other U.S. cities, a new federal report shows. The metro areas that were growing the slowest tended to be concentrated in the Great Lakes states of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. More...
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Canada used to offer traveling fishermen five island customs stations between Lake of the Woods and Lake Superior. Now between Lake of the Woods and Lake Superior there remains but one island Canadian customs station, at Sand Point Lake. More...
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An analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council found that Michigan beaches were closed or put under water-contact advisories 198 days in 2007, compared with 124 in 2006. But local officials report that there have been no advisories so far in the 2008 season. More...
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Hopefully, the U. S. Coast Guard will begin cracking down soon on shipping firms that dump cargo, better protecting the lakes for all of us. More...
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Hopefully, the U. S. Coast Guard will begin cracking down soon on shipping firms that dump cargo, better protecting the lakes for all of us. More...
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Beaconsfield Mayor Bob Benedetti joined 54 other mayors from both north and south of the Canadian-American border recently to ask their respective federal governments to do more in terms of protecting water resources around the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. More...
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Great Lakes water levels are higher -- much higher -- than they've been in recent years. But they're still below the long-term average for August. More...
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Money has been made available to dredge the village's state-operated harbor, but it seems no one has the time to do the project. More...
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If the United States fails to act immediately to expand its electricity-generating capacity, it will be vulnerable to "rolling brownouts" and spiraling utility prices in less than 10 years, says Congressman Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph. More...
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Public forum set on plan to restore Lake Michigan lake trout
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Efforts to restore native populations of lake trout in Lake Michigan would shift to intensive stocking of the fish in deep water areas of the lake that are less affected by non-native invasive species. More... -
The state of Indiana is on the right track, as construction decisions are made that take into account the importance of building in energy-efficiency. More...