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Authorities need to quickly resolve the problem with sanitary sewers at Miller Park and hold accountable those responsible. More...
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Water levels in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron dropped six times faster than average in February, a startling plunge that one expert attributed to the region's increasingly bizarre winter weather. More...
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The group that wants to turn the decaying former Coast Guard station into an Indian cultural center deserves another six months to raise money, but that deadline must be final. More...
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Canada's biggest single source of greenhouse gases is Ontario Power Generation's Nanticoke coal-fired station, says a report to be released today. More...
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With the threat of global warming chilling our bones, the government is attempting to give taxpayers an incentive to clean up. More...
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Falling water levels further impacted shipments. With Lake Superior hovering just inches above its all-time low, individual cargos fell far short of vessels’ capacity. More...
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For the first time, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking the public's help in hopes of finding out if an endangered species known as the Eastern cougar is really out there in any abundance. More...
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Testing on Tuesday showed that sanitary sewage from Miller Park bathrooms is finding its way into a storm sewer emptying into a nearby river that flows into Lake Michigan. More...
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Visitors and residents will have the opportunity to enjoy the area's surroundings by paddling through the waves and stopping at several coastal communities when they explore the 90-plus miles of Lake Huron shoreline. More...
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Local officials and environmental groups were dismayed last week to find that Gov. Rod Blagojevich's proposed budget didn't include $4 million they had expected to help clean the long-polluted Waukegan harbor. More...
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The Inland Sea Society works on projects promoting environmental stewardship through education and recreation, sustainable communities, and watershed-based organizing. In 1988, the Society conceived the idea of a 3,000-mile Lake Superior Water Trail and continues work on extending the trail. More...
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Ice blocking the Black River caused flooding in several residential yards Tuesday evening. More...
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Monday's earthquake in Portage County was the latest example that Northeast Ohio knows how to rattle and roll. Earthquakes in the region, though mostly minor, are becoming more common. More...
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In a strongly worded letter to the Minnesota DNR Commissioner, Mark Johnson of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association expressed the group’s “outrage†that from 2002 through the proposed 2008-09 budget, some $25 million in hunting license revenues will have been spent to cover deficits in the DNR’s fisheries operation. More...
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Despite possessing data showing lagoons and landfills filled with coal ash present a cancer risk up to 10,000 times greater than federal rules allow, a coalition of environmental groups says, the U.S. EPA has failed to fulfill a promise to adopt public health regulations for those sites. More...
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The House approved a proposal Friday that would require study of wastewater treatment plants that discharge into the Great Lakes. More...
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Despite the clear direction in the federal Clean Water Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had to be sued by citizen groups to apply the Clean Water Act to the most dangerous form of contamination that our Great Lakes face: "biological pollution" -- namely aquatic nuisance species (ANS). More...
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The Ontario government is being urged to change logging practices to better protect the province's intact boreal forest as part of a plan to slow the growth of climate change. More...
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By a vote of 3-0, the Town Board on Monday approved a one-year moratorium on wind farm development, giving a nine-member town committee time to research wind farms and make recommendations. More...
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The big question surfacing right now around sporting circles is: What’s going on with the baitfish regulations? More...
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Indiana Dunes State Park has been named by Tripadvisor.com as one of the country's Top 10 family beach vacation spots. More...
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On Saturday, April 21, the Superior Watershed Partnership will be coordinating a pharmaceutical collection of unwanted and expired prescription and over-the-counter medications as part of Earth Day 2007. More...
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A Michigan citizens group fed up with Canada geese soiling the state's parks, beaches and golf courses is proposing the explosive fowl population be culled --and fed to the homeless. More...
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The Friends of Big Sandy Bay is a not-for-profit association of volunteers dedicated to the conservation, restoration and appreciation of the natural features of the Big Sandy Bay. More...
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Researchers have found that bacteria from human waste is seeping into creeks, rivers and Lake Michigan - probably from leaks in sanitary sewers or illegal connections between those systems and storm sewers. More...