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The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is considering changing how it issues permits for pipelines, roads and coal mines that disturb wetlands and streams. More...

Detroit Public Television through Great Lakes Now is broadcasting live online coverage during Great Lakes Week 2014 in Grand Rapids, Mich., starting Tues., Sept. 9 through Thurs., Sept. 11. This year the Healing Our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition conference will focus on critical issues related to the Great Lakes' science, politics and future, and on ways to elevate these conversations. More...

The three shipwreck enthusiasts from western New York say they found the 45-foot-long Three Brothers in July in deep water west of Oswego. More...

Loopholes preventing effective regulation must be closed. More...

Canadian officials will open a public hearing Tuesday looking at plans for a nuclear waste storage facility very close to Lake Huron. More...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society was searching west of Whitefish Point, near Deer Park, when they noticed a blip on their side-scan sonar. More...

The range of science folk as well as policy wonks and policy makers, right as well as left, pretty much agree: The thing that has changed is the size of farms and their fertilizers and fertilizer practices. More...

Ten U.S. and Canadian agencies are taking part in a field exercise this week, testing their ability to respond to an invasion of Asian carp in western Lake Erie and head off a major environmental threat to the Great Lakes and their multibillion-dollar fishing industry. More...

Just 10 miles from the shores of the Great Lakes, local government leaders are less likely to see the lakes as an economic asset for their township or city, according to a survey by the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy. More...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported a 65-inch change in water levels. First the water lowered by 14 inches and then quickly rose 51 inches. More...

Eighty years ago, before it built its then state-of-the-art water-treatment plant near Collins Park and connected to it a water intake several miles off Lake Erie's Jerusalem Township shoreline, Toledo got its water from the Maumee River. More...

Ohio Lake Erie Commission has developed an effective Coastweeks program which has been growing strong over the years, and continues to be the largest volunteer cleanup effort in Ohio to restore Lake Erie beaches, streams and tributaries. Coastweeks 2014 is now underway - check out the many opportunities to participate! More...

The Council of Great Lakes Governors September 2014 edition of its newsletter, THE COMPASS, is now available. Highlights include a message from co-chair Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, discussion of protecting the region from aquatic invaders, and the launch of a new website. More...

Beginning in the 1880s and continuing on to the early 1900s the two or three masted Huron fishing boat was a common sight in Kincardine harbour, Ontario. More...

Lake County is not only part of the State of Illinois but also the Great Lakes region, and that dimension becomes steadily more important economically and therefore politically as well. More...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that cleanup of the Ashtabula River in Ohio has progressed enough for it to be removed from a list of contaminated sites along the Great Lakes that are designated "areas of concern" by the United States and Canada. More...

This year's annual fall run of Chinook salmon up the Salmon River and other Lake Ontario tributaries is running "a little bit behind schedule" compared to the past two years, according to local experts. More...

What do the Great Lakes and a camel's stomach have in common? Find out at Plastic Waters, an exhibit that shows the harmful effects of plastic pollution on our lakes and oceans -- and some inspiring solutions that can sustain our waters. More...

A replica of Christopher Columbus' ship, the Pinta makes its way into the Michigan City Port, Ind. accompanied by a replica of the Nina and visitors can enjoy self-guided tours aboard the vessels. More...

Each summer, the vessels line up on Lake Ontario and while most are passing through Niagara, a handful just stay put for days, sometimes a week or more. More...

In Cleveland, Ohio officials at a West Side plating company pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of violating the federal Clean Water Act by illegally dumping high concentrations of metals into the sewer system. More...

Summer is coming to an end, and the Environmental Law & Policy Center is making sure that the SS Badger car ferry's coal ash dumping into Lake Michigan is finally coming to an end, too. More...

For the past few months, scientists have been using high-tech trackers to look at the daily habits of lean and siscowet lake trout. The wait is finally over for some of the trackers. More...

An entire ecosystem, encapsulated in a ceramic sphere, was dropped into Lake Superior Tuesday with the help of a crane. The orb is expected to float around Lake Superior for the next four to six weeks. More...

Nearly three dozen sturgeon set for release into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan were reared by state's Department of Natural Resources for two extra weeks to increase the chance of survival of the fish. The release is part of broader efforts to stabilize the lake sturgeon population and prevent it from declining. More...