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The blockbuster deal includes several steel mills: ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor in East Chicago; ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor in Porter County; ArcelorMittal Riverdale in Illinois; and the Gary Plate finishing facility located inside U.S. Steel’s Gary Works steel mill. Read the full story by the Times of Northwest Indiana.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200929-merger-steel

Patrick Canniff

Lake Erie is Buffalo’s most important natural resource, and together with Lake Ontario, the two bodies of water are overwhelmingly influential in the lives of all Western New Yorkers, regardless of how they vote. The issues involving them go far beyond the still-nagging problem of pollution and politics suffuses them all. Read the full story by The Buffalo News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200929-duluth-pfas

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The Minnesota DNR precautions follow warnings issued for contaminated deer near industrial sites known to have PFAS contamination, including a warning near the Duluth air base where PFAS has been detected in downstream Miller Creek and in Rice Lake. Read the full story by Duluth News Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200929-duluth-pfas

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Researchers funded through the Minnesota Sea Grant, have been testing water samples every weekend since July at eight Duluth beaches, with the goal to further understanding of how the virus acts in the water and whether it can spread there. Read the full story by Star Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200929-duluth-covid

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The owner of the dams in Midland County, that failed in May, has been given an emergency order by the State of Michigan to make repairs right away on the Edenville Dam. Read the full story by WSMH-TV-Flint, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200929-michigan-dam

Patrick Canniff

A Memorandum of Understanding between Michigan Technological University and Northwestern Michigan College will have the two colleges working together on marine technology, freshwater science, and professional development to support Great Lakes research. Read the full story by Record-Eagle.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200929-research-universities

Patrick Canniff

Citing a “dangerous reality” created by global climate change, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order aimed at making the state’s economy completely carbon neutral by 2050. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200924-climate-change-michigan

Patrick Canniff

The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has announced that a wholesale fish dealer in Platteville, WI is facing state charges for illegally selling species of highly invasive, destructive Asian carp. Read the full story by Wisconsin Examiner.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200924-wisconsin-carp

Patrick Canniff

The Pine River runs through five mid-Michigan counties, including Gratiot County, which is home to 27 concentrated animal feeding operations, the third highest of any county in Michigan, and has been impacted from chemical pollutants from other industrial sources. Read the full story by NPR.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200924-michigan-pollution

Patrick Canniff

Michigan lawmakers are exploring a new task force aimed at combating flooding and soil erosion, a problem that Michigan has been experiencing most recently with Great Lakes water levels hitting record heights this past spring and summer. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200924-michigan-erosion

Patrick Canniff

Ontario’s controversial new fall hunt for the double-crested cormorant has pitted outdoors’ and sportsmen’s groups against naturalist and birding organizations. Following public consultation, the province approved a shorter cormorant hunting season from Sept. 15 to Dec. 31, and reduced the limit on cormorants that can be taken by a hunter to 15 per day. Read the full story by Owen Sound Sun Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200924-ontario-cormorant

Patrick Canniff

The Ohio House on passed a bill blocking Cuyahoga County and other local governments from banning plastic bags and other single-user containers, sending the measure to Gov. Mike DeWine; bill opponents say the ban will prevent local governments from addressing pollution, particularly in Lake Erie. Read the full story by cleveland.com.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200924-ohio-plastic

Patrick Canniff

Testing of private residential wells near the Grand Ledge Army Support Facility in Michigan did not detect PFOS or PFOA, among the most common varieties of PFAS chemicals, according to the Michigan National Guard. Read the full story by Lansing State Journal.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200924-pfas-michigan

Patrick Canniff

Only 17 breeding pairs existed when the Great Lakes Recovery Program launched in 1986. Currently sixty-four piping plover pairs breed along all five Great Lakes, with a goal of 150 breeding pairs which would allow for the delisting of the piping plover from its federally endangered listing. Read the full story by Record-Eagle.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200924-piping-plover

Patrick Canniff

Officials have said the coronavirus pandemic and resulting closures presented visitors with more opportunity — and little else to do — to go to the beach this summer. Read the full story by the Port Huron Times Herald.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200924-covid-beaches

Patrick Canniff

This month, the U.S. Senate approved funding to appropriate $8 million to the Department of Natural Resources for Michigan’s contribution to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to rebuild the Brandon Road Lock and Dam in Illinois. Read the full story by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200917-brandon-road-carp-lock-dam

Patrick Canniff

Dream Hub CEO discusses an event hosted by Dream Hall where Asian carp was served to people in need as a product from their incubator kitchens for the Illinois Kane County food hub. Listen to the full story by WGN Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200917-eat-asian-carp

Patrick Canniff

The Great Lakes are warming faster than the oceans. And Lake Superior, which is the largest, deepest Great Lake, … is one of the five fastest-warming lakes in the world,” says Democratic U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan. Listen to the full story by Yale Climate Connections.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200917-great-lakes-climate-change

Patrick Canniff

A report authored by Mackinac Center for Public Policy Environmental Policy and the Minnesota-based Center for the American Experiment challenges the shut down and new construction for the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac, citing projected exorbitant costs for Michigan UP homeowners. Read the full story by The Center Square.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200917-michigan-line-5

Patrick Canniff

On Sept. 16^th Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer announced a new initiative in partnership with The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) called the Catalyst Communities program. Read the full story by WSMH-TV – Flint, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200917-michigan-climate-change

Patrick Canniff

According to a new report from the long-running wolf study conducted by Michigan Technological University and the National Park Service, the newly released wolves transported to Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior seem to be making themselves at home. Read and listen to the full story by Lake Superior News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200917-isle-royale

Patrick Canniff

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reports that phase one construction of the new lock has shifted to around-the-clock operations, as of Sept. 8; the new lock will provide a safeguard against a potential breakdown of the adjacent Poe Lock, the largest lock in the Seaway chain, which opened to navigation in 1969. Read the full story by Sootoday.com.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200917-soo-lock-construction

Patrick Canniff

Earlier this summer the government of Ontario said it had received many complaints about the growing number of double-crested cormorants. After an announcement in July, an annual harvest season has started Sept. 15^th and will continue until December 31^st. Read the full story by Radio Canada International.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200917-cormorant-cull-ontario

Patrick Canniff

The project is part of an effort by Lakewood, Ohio to adhere to the EPA’s Clean Water Act requiring communities to identify, control and either permit or eliminate stormwater; the issue is the city’s 100-year-old sewer system wasn’t designed to handle large storm events. Read the full story by Cleveland.com

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200917-stormwater-sewer

Patrick Canniff

The Chamber of Marine Commerce says that demand for wheat, canola and soybeans is pushing grain shipments up by 20 per cent in some of Ontario ports, though shipments in the Great Lakes Seaway are still down eight per cent overall compared to this time last year. Read the full story by Canadian Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200917-shipping-boost

Patrick Canniff

Two Minnesota shipwreck hunters located the Pere Marquette 18, as it sits in nearly 500 feet of water far offshore from Sheboygan and Port Washington, WI, coated in zebra mussels and with the tip of the bow rising nearly 100 feet off the lake bed. Read the full story by Minnesota Public Radio News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200908-shipwreck-wisconsin

Patrick Canniff

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is partnering with the Ohio Water Development Authority (OWDA) to strengthen the impact of the H2Ohio water quality initiative. OWDA has approved $5 million to fund additional wetlands efforts in ODNR’s H2Ohio program. Read the full story by The Delaware Gazette.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200908-ohio-water-quality2

Patrick Canniff

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is partnering with the Ohio Water Development Authority (OWDA) to strengthen the impact of the H2Ohio water quality initiative. OWDA has approved $5 million to fund additional wetlands efforts in ODNR’s H2Ohio program. Read the full story by The Delaware Gazette.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200908-ohio-water-quality

Patrick Canniff

The State of Michigan is holding a number of public meetings online regarding the proposed tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac for Enbridge’s Line 5. The first is being held Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. by the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. Read the full story by Michigan Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200908-line-5

Patrick Canniff

About 400 sturgeon were relocated farther upstream between 2015 and 2019 thanks to an elevator installation at the Menominee Dam, located about two miles upriver from Green Bay, WI; bypassing the dams means the sturgeon can access their historical spawning sites. Read and listen to the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200908-fish-elevator-green-bay

Patrick Canniff

A salvage-rearing program led by the Detroit Zoological Society has released 39 of the birds in northern Michigan this year, among 299 piping plovers reared in captive and released since 2001. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200908-piping-plovers

Patrick Canniff

A northern Michigan lake that’s famous for its turquoise waters is facing an outbreak of brown algae that’s left its sandy bottom covered with mushy, squishy mats. One lakeshore resident, said the brown algae was first noticed about a decade ago, but now the “golden-brown algae” grows in thick mats and sticks to the otherwise sugar-sand bottom of the lake in Antrim County’s Torch Lake. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200908-torch-lake-algae

Patrick Canniff

One of Illinois’ most popular tourist attractions, the pier closed from mid-March to June, but even after its reopening, attendance has been only 15% of its normal level, which prompted Navy Pier officials to suspend operations once more until spring. Read the full story by Chicago Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200908-navy-pier-covid

Patrick Canniff

Traverse City, MI has plans to move forward with the Fishpass Project, to provide bi-directional passage of selective fish, as the capstone of a 20-year restoration on the Boardman River, reconnecting the river to Lake Michigan; and including a kayak launch, pedestrian bridge, and rehabilitated boardwalk. Read the full story by WGTU-TV – Traverse City, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200908-traverse-city-fishpass

Patrick Canniff

As thunderstorms and flooding hit Northeast Ohio on Monday, raw sewage overflowed into Lake Erie at Edgewater Beach, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District said in a news release. The sewer district is advising people going to Edgewater Beach to avoid contact with the water and debris. Read the full story by Cleveland.com.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200908-lake-huron-erosion

Patrick Canniff

Current high lake levels are due to increased precipitation; with more storms in and around the Great Lakes basin in the fall, the Great Lakes will likely increase erosion in the fall and winter. Read the full story by Barrietoday.com.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200908-lake-huron-erosion

Patrick Canniff

The Trump administration plans to lift endangered species protections for gray wolves across most of the nation by the end of the year, despite contention from the Humane Society of the United States and other wildlife protection groups that argue wolves are still vulnerable. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200901-wolf-protections

Patrick Canniff

The Trump administration on Monday relaxed strict Obama-era standards for how coal-fired power plants dispose of wastewater laced with dangerous pollutants like lead, selenium and arsenic, a move environmental groups said would leave rivers and streams vulnerable to toxic contamination. Read the full story by The New York Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200901-epa-rule-coal-waste

Patrick Canniff

Alongside the illnesses, deaths and closures caused by COVID-19, the threat of climate change still hangs over communities across the Great Lakes region and around the world. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200901-climate-justice

Patrick Canniff

Drenching rains, wet winters, warmer air and water, less ice cover and more runoff have formed a meteorological cocktail that has contributed to unprecedented Great Lakes water levels, flood-producing storms and the degradation of the shoreline, scientists say. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200901-lake-ontario-shoreline

Patrick Canniff

The agency that regulates outflows from Lake Ontario has announced plans to increase those flows slightly after the Labor Day weekend, following through on a decision made in May to let water levels drop in September in Lake St. Lawrence, just upstream of the Moses-Saunders Dam between Massena and Cornwall, Ontario. Read the full story by The Buffalo News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200901-lake-ontario-outflow-levels

Patrick Canniff

The wetland ecosystem of Braddock Bay in Monroe County, New York, is a prime example of how climate change and fluctuating Lake Ontario water levels have altered the shoreline habitat. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200901-climate-change-lake-ontario

Patrick Canniff

The Shaw Point Historic District on Sand Island in Lake Superior has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The historic district on Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands National Lakeshore holds a unique collection of three neighboring properties at Sand Island’s southeastern edge. Read the full story by the Ashland Daily Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200901-historic-lake-superior

Patrick Canniff

Throughout the past few years, millions of dollars in grant funding have been utilized in Greenville, Michigan, to properly map, identify and locate deficiencies within the city’s wastewater system. Read the full story by The Daily News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200901-michigan-sewer-line

Patrick Canniff

Booming exports of grain are driving the Great Lakes shipping industry’s rebound, with shipments of Canadian grain up 13 percent from last year. The demand for grain helps offset downturns among many other products, like coal, steel and iron ore, which have brought the overall amount of cargo shipped on the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway down eight percent year-to-date. Read the full story by The Stony Plain Reporter.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200901-shipping-grain

Patrick Canniff

Ohio far and away leads all states when it comes to spending money on the fight against harmful algae, with $815 million in documented expenses over the past decade, 70 percent of what all 50 states have spent, according to a report issued Wednesday by a national environmental group. Read and view the full story by Toledo Blade.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200827-ohio-algae

Patrick Canniff

The city of Waukesha, Wisconsin, was recently awarded a $137.1 million dollar loan from the federal government for its construction project to switch the city’s municipal water source to Lake Michigan, due to high radium levels. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200827-wisconsin-water-supply

Patrick Canniff

The deepwater Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor on Lake Michigan is unloading the primary shipments for a $1 billion power plant at the Indeck Niles Energy Center in Niles, Michigan. Stevedores at the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor are handling more than 600 individual pieces of cargo, some of which are 100-feet long and weigh more than 600,000 pounds. Read the full story by The Northwest Indiana Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200827-indiana-harbor-power-plant

Patrick Canniff

After approving hundreds of wind turbines and solar arrays, the state of Michigan is looking to bolster its renewable energy offerings by seeking proposals for up to $200,000 in matching funding for the creation of an energy storage roadmap for the state. Read the full story by dbusiness.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200827-michigan-renewable-energy

Patrick Canniff

The Detroit Zoological Society’s Piping Plover Captive Rearing Program began nearly 20 years ago, but never has it had the impact it did in 2020, when 39 of Detroit Zoo-reared shoreline birds were released in Northern Michigan. Read the full story by the Mlive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200827-piping-plover

Patrick Canniff