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Great Lakes maritime industry underutilized but has tremendous potential, Federal Reserve Bank panel said

On: November 23, 2020

Great Lakes ports handle millions of tons of cargo a year, linking the Upper Midwest with the wider world via international commerce. But they are underutilized and have tremendous potential to have even greater economic impact, according to the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors & Premiers CEO, who appeared on a panel on regional competitiveness. Read the full story by The Northwest Indiana Times.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2020123-maritime-insdustry

Army Corps warns of more dangers on Great Lakes

On: November 23, 2020

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is urging caution around Great Lake piers, breakwaters, and jetties, especially during times of high wind and waves. Read the full story by WSJM – St. Joseph, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2020123-great-lakes-dangers

Great Lakes Commission to grant Fort Wayne 200K for flood protection and draining improvements

On: November 16, 2020

The Great Lakes Commission is granting Fort Wayne $200,000 for the Colonial Heritage improvement project. Read the full story by WANE-TV – Fort Wayne, IN.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2020116-oil-pipeline

Ontario tries to keep Great Lakes oil pipeline flowing, despite Michigan’s planned shutdown

On: November 16, 2020

Ontario minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines says the province is “profoundly disappointed” with the Governor of Michigan’s decision to shut down the Line 5 oil pipeline in the Straight of Mackinac and will work to keep the pipeline flowing. Read the full story by CBC.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2020116-oil-pipeline

Line 5 shutdown order ‘creates a scenario’ for stopping Enbridge tunnel

On: November 16, 2020

The days may now be numbered for the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac, but state regulators say permitting for the company’s proposed tunnel project is not affected by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s move to shut down the pipeline by terminating the easement that allows it to cross the lakebed. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2020116-line-5-shutdown

Turning toxic lemons into lemonade, from algae to biofuel

On: November 16, 2020

An algal turf scrubber could be the solution to a problem that threatens to suffocate the ecosystem of the Great Lakes: algal blooms. The algal turf scrubber filters water over a designated area for algae to grow and eventually be harvested for use as biofuel. Read the full story by the Capital News Service.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2020116-algae-biofuel

COMMENTARY: GTA’s workhorse wetlands are under threat

On: November 16, 2020

Urban wetlands in the Greater Toronto Area are under threat by a recent warehouse building proposal. Read the full story by The Toronto Star.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2020116-wetlands-under-threat

Renewed calls to bolster protections for MN’s water supplies

On: November 16, 2020

The Great Lakes region contains one-fifth of the world’s freshwater supply. Environmental groups say that abundance will make states such as Minnesota a high priority for other regions wanting to bolster their dwindling supplies. Read the full story by Public News Service.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2020116-minnesota-water-supply

Cost-sharing funds available for LaPointe Drain watershed in south county

On: November 16, 2020

Area growers can take their farm management to the next level and help improve Western Lake Erie Basin water quality by taking part in a new cost-sharing funding opportunity to achieve nutrient and sediment reduction goals outlined in the S.S. LaPointe Watershed Management Plan. Read the full story by The Monroe News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2020116-lapointe-drain

CSI Great Lakes: genetic material helps researchers find invaders

On: November 16, 2020

Environmental DNA is a genetic material Great Lakes researchers have used to detect the presence of species for about the last 10 years. Now it’s playing an increasingly important — but sometimes controversial — role in monitoring invasive species. Read the full story by the Capital News Service.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2020116-edna

Former Guam serviceman discovers shipwreck in Lake Ontario

On: November 16, 2020

Daniel Gildea didn’t set out to find a shipwreck. But when he deployed his underwater equipment to Henderson Bay in Lake Ontario, New York, there it was: a three-masted wooden schooner that dated back to the mid-18th century. Read the full story by Pacific Daily News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2020116-shipwreck-discovery

Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa debuts fishing company

On: November 16, 2020

It was a historic day on the Red Cliff Reservation Saturday as the band opened their first fishing company to share the fish caught in Lake Superior with the rest of the Northland. Read the full story by KBJR-TV – Bayfield, WI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/2020116-red-cliff-band

NYS Senators urge EPA to extend public comment period on proposed Vessel Incidental Discharge standards

On: November 9, 2020

New York Senators are calling on the EPA to extend a written comment period for proposed vessel incidental discharge standards. Read the full story by WWTI-TV – Watertown, NY.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201109-vessel-indidental-discharge

East Peoria businessman aims to take a bite out of Asian carp population in Illinois River

On: November 9, 2020

A businessman from central Illinois has combined two wildly divergent opportunities into what is now likely the only legal cannabis and Asian carp business partnership on the planet. Read the full story by the Pekin Daily Times.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201109-asain-carp-business

Natural Lake Michigan coastline area soon to be open for public use

On: November 9, 2020

Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy worked with the local government to purchase a piece of private property on Lake Michigan that will open up an area of natural freshwater and forested dunes off the Lake Michigan coast to the public. Read the full story by WWMT-TV – Kalamazoo, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201109-lake-michigan-coastline

$1 million-plus restoration project announced for Flint River-Swartz Creek confluence

On: November 9, 2020

Over $1 million is needed for the first steps of the planned restoration of the Flint River-Swartz Creek confluence in mid-Michigan. Read the full story by East Village Magazine.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201109-restoration-project

Ann Arbor now seeking EPA intervention in decades-long pollution saga

On: November 9, 2020

After decades of state oversight of polluter-funded cleanup efforts for the Gelman dioxane plume, the city of Ann Arbor in southeast Michigan is seeking federal intervention. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201109-epa-intervention

Big walleye hatches leading to ‘unprecedented’ population, ‘phenomenal’ fishing

On: November 9, 2020

Even as fishing in Lake Erie, the “Walleye Capital of World”, has certainly been living up to its name over the past two years, experts are projecting it could be on the verge of getting even better. Read the full story by the Port Clinton News Herald.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201109-walleye-fishing

Great Lakes water levels go down more than normal, inch away from record levels

On: November 9, 2020

Although the Great Lakes’ water levels generally drop this time of year, all of them are decreasing above average levels. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201109-water-levels

Great Lakes Historical Shipwreck Society going ‘virtual’ to mark 45th Anniversary

On: November 9, 2020

The Great Lakes Historical Shipwreck Society is planning a virtual live ceremony on November 10 to commemorate the singing of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Read the full story by Lake Superior News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201109-edmund-fitzgerald

Eagle Tower construction nears completion, spring opening expected

On: November 9, 2020

The new Eagle Tower in Peninsula State Park located in northern Door County, Wisconsin should be completed by the end of 2020 and will open to the public in the spring of 2021. Listen to the full story by the Green Bay Press Gazette.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201109-eagle-tower

Wildfires threaten Great Lakes region as well as West Coast

On: November 9, 2020

Wildfires are not just a problem in the western United States. Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota have vast amounts of forestland, and forested portions of the region have a mixed-pine ecosystem that is home to many fire-loving coniferous trees such as the jack pine. Read the full story by the Capital News Service.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201109-wildfires

Long-lasting pollutants harming some Great Lakes shorebirds

On: October 26, 2020

Research shows chemicals banned years and even decades ago are showing up in some Great Lakes shorebirds, such as the common tern. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201026-shorebirds

Officials: Pointe Mouillee a success story

On: October 26, 2020

Pointe Mouillee State Game Area in southeast Michigan is considered the largest fresh water marsh restoration project in North America, with about 5,200 acres dedicated to wildlife and water quality. Read the full story by The Daily Telegram.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201026-pointe-mouillee

Benton Harbor receives $5 million grant to replace lead water pipes

On: October 26, 2020

The City of Benton Harbor in southwest Michigan was awarded a $5 million grant to replace lead pipes and make sure everyone has access to clean drinking water. Read the full story by WSBT-TV – South Bend, IN.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201026-water-pipe-grant

A 22-year mission to restore a Pennsylvania bay

On: October 26, 2020

After more than two decades of cleanup and community efforts, Lake Erie’s Presque Isle Bay became the second heavily contaminated place in the United States to be removed from the Great Lakes toxic waters list. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201026-pennsylvania-bay

EPA chief back in Michigan to announce more water utility grants

On: October 26, 2020

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler visited two Michigan cities to announce the distribution of utility grant funds that will help replace lead water pipes of the type that contributed to tap water poisoning in Flint. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201026-utility-grants

State commission won’t consider climate impacts in Enbridge Line 5 permit process

On: October 26, 2020

A Michigan state commission considering a permit for a controversial tunnel project to house a new section of the Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac will not look at the potential impacts the proposed project could have on climate change. Read the full story by the MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201026-climate-impacts-line-5

Michigan Attorney General sues Washtenaw County landfill for environmental violations

On: October 26, 2020

The Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed a lawsuit against a Washtenaw County landfill over environmental violations related to air quality issues. Read the full story by WJBK-TV – Detroit, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201026-landfill

EDITORIAL: Michigan needs to develop statewide septic system rules

On: October 26, 2020

Michigan is lacking statewide septic system rules that would help protect our precious water resources from aging and failing home sewage systems that are prevalent in communities across Michigan. Read the full story by Iron Mountain Daily News.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201026-septic-rules

DNR report: Wisconsin air quality improving

On: October 26, 2020

Wisconsin’s air quality has improved over the last 15 years, according to a report by state environmental officials. Read the full story by Huron Daily Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201026-air-quality

Judge: Michigan agency can evaluate Great Lakes tunnel plan

On: October 26, 2020

The Michigan Public Service Commission has some authority over Enbridge’s plans to build an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the channel that connects two of the Great Lakes and can evaluate the need for the project and whether it would be designed, constructed and operated safely, a state administrative law judge ruled last week. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201026-pipeline-tunnel

New: Tribal members urge EGLE to deny or delay Line 5 permits after archeological finds

On: October 19, 2020

A group of tribal water protectors and Michigan environmentalists plan to submit comments to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, urging the state to consider new archaeological discoveries near the Line 5 pipeline before granting permits to Canadian oil company Enbridge. Read the full story by Michigan Advance.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201019-line-5

MSU gets $100k grant to study Great Lakes shoreline erosion

On: October 19, 2020

Michigan State University was awarded a $100,000 grant by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy to study erosion along Great Lakes shorelines and what happens to sand after it erodes. Read the full story by WLNS – East Lansing, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201019-msu-grant

Lake Superior caribou may be gone from mainland

On: October 19, 2020

Hope is dwindling that any caribou remain on the Ontario mainland of Lake Superior’s North Shore, with an aerial survey last winter finding no caribou, not even any tracks. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201019-caribou

SIMS: City sewage samples flush up early indicators of coronavirus spread

On: October 19, 2020

Once a week, Mike McKay, a professor and executive director at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Windsor, collects samples from several Ontario water treatment plants to test for COVID-19. Read the full story by The Kingston Whig-Standard.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201019-coronavirus-sewage

OSU receives grant to help preserve Lake Erie

On: October 19, 2020

The Ohio State University received nearly $75,000 from the Great Lakes Sediment and Nutrient Reduction Program to test new methods to reduce phosphorous runoff into Lake Erie. Read the full story by WILO-TV – Lima, OH.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201019-osu-grant

Salmon are migrating through Toronto’s waterways this weekend

On: October 19, 2020

Every year in September and October, thousands of salmon swim upstream through Ontario’s waterways to spawn. With COVID-19 limiting many fall activities, more people are getting out to witness the phenomenon. Read the full story by Daily Hive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201019-salmon-migrating

DNR on track to fill Great Lakes fish stocking quotas

On: October 19, 2020

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources continues to help boost fish populations through stocking and is fulfilling all remaining 2020 stocking quotas for Lake Michigan. Read the full story by Seehafer News.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201019-fish-stocking

Rising waters threaten communities across Great Lakes region

On: October 19, 2020

In the eight Great Lakes states, officials at every level along 4,500 miles of coastline are scrambling to save what they can from the rising water, competing for scarce state and federal dollars and rubber-stamping permits to build private seawalls at an unprecedented pace. Read the full story by the Watertown Daily Times.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201019-rising-waters

Coastal management: City of Marquette, MTU awarded EGLE grants

On: October 19, 2020

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy awarded funds to the city of Marquette to restore a critical section of Lake Superior coastline home to a diverse habitat including wetlands, dunes, beach and coastal upland. Read the full story by The Mining Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201019-coastal-grants

COMMENTARY: Showcasing the DNR: Kalamazoo River to be restored through Trowbridge Dam removal project in Allegan County

On: October 19, 2020

The Trowbridge Dam removal is slated to be completed in 2022, which will be the final State of Michigan-owned dam to be removed from the Kalamazoo River. The removal and remediation of the Trowbridge Dam will help to restore the Kalamazoo River watershed. Read the full story by the Manistee News Advocate.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201019-trowbridge-dam

Group thinks it has found proof of 10,000-year-old, Ice Age culture in Straits of Mackinac

On: October 14, 2020

A team of nonscientists utilized a remote-operated underwater vehicle in the Straits of Mackinac and found stones they say appear arranged in patterns on the lake floor, potentially done by humans 10,000 years ago. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201014-ice-age-culture

Michigan House approves request for Straits of Mackinac federal designation

On: October 14, 2020

Foreign commercial ships traversing the Straits of Mackinac between Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsula would be required to get special help under a resolution approved by the Michigan House on Tuesday. Read the full story by WJRT-TV – Lansing, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201014-federal-designation

IJC seeks input on Lake Ontario water level management plan

On: October 14, 2020

The International Joint Commission posted an online questionnaire for owners of property along Lake Ontario that could lead to revisions to the agency’s lake level management plan. Read the full story by The Buffalo News.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201014-ijc-management-plan

Minnesota Supreme Court weighs fate of PolyMet mine permits

On: October 14, 2020

Lawyers for the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine and state regulators urged the Minnesota Supreme Court to defer to the judgment of the state Department of Natural Resources and reinstate three critical permits for the project. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201014-polymet-mine

MichMash: A history of Enbridge pipeline controversies in Michigan

On: October 14, 2020

The history of the decade-long fight over what to do about the aging oil and gas pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac is untangled. Listen to the full story by WDET – Detroit, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201014-pipeline-history

Conneaut receives $19.5 million grant for port

On: October 14, 2020

Conneaut in northern Ohio has received a $19.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, for critical infrastructure work on the city’s port. Read the full story by Star Beacon.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201014-port-grant

All-terrain wheelchairs added at Indiana Dunes State Park

On: October 14, 2020

Three new all-terrain wheelchairs have been added for guest use at Indiana Dunes State Park, provided access to trails and the Lake Michigan beach. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201014-wheelchairs

The most haunted lighthouses of the Great Lakes region

On: October 14, 2020

The old lighthouses of the Great Lakes are believed to hold the unsettled spirits of those who kept them, and those who met tragic, untimely deaths. Read the full story by Fodor’s Travel.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20201014-haunted-lighthouses