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There is a battle going on in Washington, DC, involving two Lake Michigan ferry companies and the operations of the S.S. Badger, the only coal-fired steamship left in the United States and a multimillion-dollar linchpin for the economy of Wisconsin's historic lakeshore town of Manitowoc. More...

Pelee Island residents won't know until the end of the week whether it's safe to drink the water from Lake Erie. More...

The Lake Erie LAMP (Lakewide Management Plan) Public Forum will take place Sept. 26-27 at the Maumee Bay Lodge & Conference Center in Oregon, Ohio. Participants will learn about key issues facing Lake Erie, including current progress implementing key parts of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. More...

The battle has involved an alphabet soup of federal agencies from the EPA to the DOT, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle -- and the lake -- and a federal lobbying tab nearing $1 million. So far. More...

Certain baffling terms get used a lot in discussions about the delisting of Muskegon County's White Lake as a Great Lakes Area of Concern - like "delisting" and "Great Lakes Areas of Concern." More...

State environmental officials, who previously had been forceful advocates for similar regulation schemes, have not yet taken a position on this one, which was advanced in June after 14 years of study and debate. More...

The Space Station's Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO), mounted to the exterior of the orbiting laboratory, provides a way for researchers to see 90 wavelengths of light not visible to the human eye. More...

Fifteen local elementary, middle and high schools are currently involved in the initiative, which is administered by the Western U.P. Center for Science, Math and Education and is part of the larger Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative. More...

GLIN's September Site of the Month is Ontario's Invading Species Awareness Program, formed to address increasing threats posed by invading species in Ontario. Their goals are to generate awareness of invading species, address key pathways contributing to invading species introductions and spread, and facilitate monitoring and tracking initiatives within Ontario. More...

California is in a state of drought and, astoundingly, considering that it supplies a vast proportion of North America's agricultural goods and regularly suffers terrible droughts, California is the only state without a groundwater-management strategy. More...

The future of Mackinac Island's longest running ferry service is in doubt - will it be the last Labor Day weekend for Arnold Line and its 11 vessels? More...

As part of a new citywide sustainability plan and an attempt to reinvent itself as a "fresh coast" capital, Milwaukee is upgrading its water systems, and is researching options for tackling its chronic problems with stormwater management. More...

A large blue-green algae bloom that has prompted warnings to not drink or swim in the water near Pelee Island doesn't appear to pose a threat to Chatham-Kent, Ontario's water system at this point. More...

Applying nutrients to farm fields - and farming in general for that matter - isn't what it used to be. That was the theme of a program presented recently by the Michigan Agri-Business Association at the Crop Production Services facility near Woodbury, Mich. More...

MillerCoors will donate $500,000 to clean up Milwaukee's South Shore Park, the company announced today. The project will include migratory bird management, beach clean-up and maintenance and a beach health and water quality educational kiosk. More...

Appalled by what he was learning about Hooker Chemical Co.'s waste-disposal practices in the soon-to-be-delisted White Lake Great Lakes Area of Concern, a newspaperman wrote hard-hitting news stories and editorials, attended meetings, and eventually joined picketing protesters in the '70s and '80s. More...

It may not be the first place people imagine when they think of surfing, but Kincardine has gained the reputation of a Great Lakes surf mecca. More...

The invasive plant Phragmites is threatening habitat for migratory birds on Leslie St. Spit in Lake Ontario. More...

Michigan DNR officials are looking for help in locating a man who allegedly poached a lake sturgeon from Lake Huron Saturday afternoon. More...

The $1.8 billion in economic impact reported is up more than 18% from the last economic impact study, done for the 2011 travel year. More...

Residents of Pelee Island are being warned not to drink their well water because of potentially toxic algae in Lake Erie. The blue-green algae blooms causing the warning are the same stuff that contaminated the drinking water of about 400,000 people in the Toledo area earlier this month. More...

A Coastal Resources Manager with the Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation says it'll take a combination of education and enforcement to get rid of ATV traffic on Lake Huron beaches. More...

Ontario Power Generation, plans to bury the equivalent of about 53 million gallons of nuclear waste less than a mile from the water's edge in Kincardine, Ontario -- directly across Lake Huron from residents of St. Clair, Sanilac and Huron counties. More...

One draft paper suggests a billion dollar industry is possible in Michigan. That would mean large fish pens out on the open waters of the Great Lakes. More...

The Great Lakes Signature Exhibit presented by New York Sea Grant and The Great New York State Fair has added new displays and expanded in-water demonstrations. The exhibit is located in and along the reflecting pool at the mini-New York State Park at the fairgrounds. The state fair runs through Sept. 1. More...