The newest state budget contained sweeping cuts to H2Ohio. In addition to slashing funds from the Ohio Department of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Agency, it halved the amount of money allocated to the Department of Natural Resources for wetlands restoration work. Read the full story by The Statehouse News Bureau.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250910-h2ohio-fundingcuts-future-wetland-restoration

Hannah Reynolds

A recent report warns the region is not prepared for the unprecedented, growing demand from data centers and other big water users like agriculture. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.  

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250910-surging-number-data-centers-great-lakes-water-shortages

Hannah Reynolds

The Ontario government is handing provincial parklands over to the town of Wasaga Beach, Ontario, in hopes of boosting the local economy. Residents wonder whether the beach will still be welcoming to endangered birds like piping plovers and the public. Read the full story by The Narwhal.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250910-wasaga-beach-piping-plovers-ontario

Hannah Reynolds

From September 8-11, residents of Burlington, Ontario, may see catamaran boats on the waters of Lake Ontario, as more than 50 of the world’s best sailors take to the lake. The Hobie 14 North American Championship is an internationally-recognized event, with both European and World Championships using the world’s very first sports catamaran to compete. Read the full story by Burlington Today.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250910-catamarans-lakeontario-sailingevent

Hannah Reynolds

The Ontario government is committing $180,000 to projects aimed at restoring and protecting waterways on Manitoulin Island, part of the Lake Huron watershed. The investment will help improve water quality, strengthen fish habitats and biodiversity, and support both environmental and economic resilience in the region. Read the full story by Wire Service Canada.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250910-ontario-invests-waterways-manitoulin-island

Hannah Reynolds

The Canadian company Enbridge wants to move a section of its 645-mile gas and oil line that’s been operating for decades near Lake Superior within the Reservation of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. The change would move the section outside tribal land but still fall within the region’s stream- and wetland-rich landscape. Last November, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources approved Enbridge’s plan – but tribal and environmental groups are pushing back. Read the full story by WUWM – Milwaukee, WI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250910-pipeline-project-habitat-rich-northern-wisconsin

Hannah Reynolds

The Cedar Creek watershed encompasses nearly 175,000 acres in northeast Indiana, spanning three counties and creating a unique and diverse ecosystem. Now, a plan to improve the quality of the watershed, put forth by the City of Fort Wayne Utilities is awaiting approval from the state. Cedar Creek is the largest watershed feeding into the St. Joseph River. The creek flows into the Maumee River, and ultimately into Lake Erie. Read the full story by WBOI – Fort Wayne, IN.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250910-cedarcreek-state-awaiting-approval

Hannah Reynolds

When strong winds push Lake Erie’s water east or west, shorelines can be left dry or flooded in a matter of hours, resulting in the water levels drastically decreasing in a short amount of time. However, that water must go somewhere, and that “somewhere” is the opposite lakeshore. Read the full story by WGRD – Grand Rapids, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250910-greatlakes-strange-seiche-phenomenon

Hannah Reynolds

The new Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Lake Erie Research Unit facility is located on the grounds of the Fairview State Fish Hatchery in Erie County, Pennsylvania, and it contains a research laboratory, library, conference room, and modern office space for three full-time biologists, seasonal biologist aides, and a Waterways Conservation Officer. Read the full story by PennWatch Media.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250910-pa-fish-boat-lakeerie-research-unit

Hannah Reynolds

Michigan’s Invasive Species Grant Program is now accepting proposals for the 2025 funding cycle, with an anticipated $3.6 million available to applicants. The program – a joint effort among multiple state agencies – is a statewide initiative launched in 2014 to help prevent, detect and control invasive species in Michigan. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250908-invasive-species-grants

James Polidori

Analysis of water samples collected as part of a long-term monitoring project by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources have shown small but measurable numbers of zebra mussel larvae in multiple inland lakes in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Read the full story by The Ely Echo.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250908-zebra-mussel-collection

James Polidori

The historic USS Cobia, a Gato-class submarine that arrived in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in 1970, has left its home at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum for the first time since the 1990s. The submarine will soon arrive in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, to undergo maintenance. Read the full story by WGBA-TV – Green Bay, WI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250908-submarine-maintenance

James Polidori

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has identified potential water quality violations linked to wastewater discharges from the Great Lakes Cheese facility in Franklinville, New York, which led to a large fish and wildlife die-off in Ischua Creek. Since the DEC’s initial response, water quality in Ischua Creek has shown significant improvements, the state said. Read the full story by WGRZ-TV – Buffalo, NY.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250908-fish-die-off

James Polidori

The inaugural Anishinaabe Canoe Migration set out over the weekend as 19 paddlers travelled down the St. Louis River. The project hopes to launch an even larger canoe migration intended to share cultural revitalization, Indigenous healing, and community empowerment in the future. Read the full story by KBRJ-TV – Superior, WI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250908-canoe-migration

James Polidori

WBGU-PBS is premiering a three-part docuseries that explores the history and legacy of eight Ohio lighthouses on Lake Erie and the people working to preserve them. The series is scheduled to air at 9 p.m. Thursdays starting September 11 and at 3:30 p.m. Saturdays beginning September 13. Read the full story by the Port Clinton News Herald.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250908-lighthouse-docuseries

James Polidori

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is halfway through completion of a $5 million grant project to remove 27 stream barriers to conserve and restore aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, improve resilience to flooding and other threats, and expand community access to nature. Read the full story by The Newberry News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250908-dam-removal-project

James Polidori

Ohio State University’s Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island, Ohio, offers scholarships for students enrolled in classes each summer through its Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program. One project collected close to 11,000 fish to better understand the influence of invasive round gobies on native darters in Lake Erie. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250908-invasive-species-project

James Polidori

The Great Lakes Museum in Kingston, Ontario, is celebrating its 50th anniversary since its founding in 1975 by a group of divers conducting underwater archaeology in Lake Ontario. Since then, the museum has grown significantly and is a National Historic Site. Read the full story by The Kingston Whig Standard.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250908-museum-anniversary

James Polidori

The Great Lakes saw at least 27 confirmed, fair-weather waterspouts/funnels — and more may have spawned beyond view — on Sunday, including on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, according to reports by the International Centre for Waterspout Research, a nonprofit that tracks the phenomena. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250908-waterspout-reports

James Polidori

As fishing for burbot, a native Great Lakes fish species, has grown increasingly popular, anglers and researchers believe the population is disappearing. Researchers say invasive zebra mussels siphoning nutrients from the water are to blame. Read the full story by WJBK-TV – Detroit, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250905-burbot-fishing

Connor Roessler

The Ohio State University and Ohio Sea Grant program are celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory through an open house this weekend. The lab, which moved to its current location on Gibraltar Island in 1925, dates to the late 1800s, making it the oldest freshwater biological field station in the country. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250905-island-lab

Connor Roessler

The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District is studying how to prevent the release of untreated water and sewage into Lake Erie which occurred three times this summer at the waters of Edgewater Beach. Read the full story by WEWS-TV – Cleveland, OH.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250905-sewer-district

Connor Roessler

Construction is underway on Milwaukee’s $17 million South Shore Cruise Dock, which will be Milwaukee’s third designated cruise dock. It will have the capacity to serve the Great Lakes’ largest cruise ships and is expected to open ahead of the 2026 cruise season, which in Milwaukee typically starts in April or early May and runs through October. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250905-cruise-dock

Connor Roessler

Environmental agencies are searching for the source of pollution that has created two contaminated hot spots in the lower Clinton River. Samples taken in 2017 and 2019 showed high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from two sites in the lower Clinton River in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250905-clinton-pollution

Connor Roessler

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed the Great Lakes Cheese factory in Franklinville, New York, was not in compliance with its discharge permit and has paused discharges from its wastewater treatment facility following a significant fish kill on Ischua Creek last week. Read the full story by WGRZ-TV – Buffalo, NY.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250905-cheese-discharge

Connor Roessler

The Franklin-St. Lawrence NYSUT United Retirees will host a boat tour with Clayton Island Tours to Rock Island Lighthouse on the St. Lawrence River in a glass-bottom boat on Monday, September 8. The event is open to all teacher retirees and spouses. Read the full story by the Watertown Daily Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250903-lighthouse-tour

Connor Roessler

Michigan’s Great Lakes could see powerful waves up to 14 feet high throughout Friday, September 5, according to the National Weather Service. Gale warnings, small craft advisories and high swim risks are in place for select beaches of Lake Michigan, Lake Superior and Lake Huron. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250903-gale-warning

Connor Roessler

Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Alpena, Michigan, will host a community lecture on Lake Trout Restoration on September 18 at the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center. The conversation will center around a conservation effort to build a series of artificial reefs to promote fish spawning. Read the full story by the Alpena News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250903-lake-trout-lecture

Nichole Angell

The Fourth Annual Great Lakes Tribal Economic Summit will be held on September 16 and 17, at the Gun Lake Casino Resort in Wayland, Michigan. The event will bring together tribal leaders and Native business executives to discuss timely insights into navigating federal policies amid significant political shifts as well as the latest tribal economic developments. Read the full story by Native News Online.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250903-tribal-economic-summit

Nichole Angell

Newly graduated Maritime Academy cadets have been in high demand after the coronavirus pandemic led to a wave of early retirements of merchant marine officers. The Trump administration has called for “resurrecting America’s maritime industry” giving the new graduates an optimistic outlook on their job prospects. Read the full story by Interlochen Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250903-maritime-industry

Nichole Angell

The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area, in Michigan has a carbon fund that accepts donations from residents to fund local conservation efforts such as tree plantings that sequester carbon from the air. Read the full story by the Great Lakes Echo.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250903-carbon-fund

Nichole Angell

The Supreme Court of Canada, in its decision released Thursday morning, announced it won’t hear an appeal of lower court decisions that confirm the Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation’s ownership of a disputed piece of Lake Huron beachfront. Read the full story by CBC News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250829-beachfront-ownership

James Polidori

A dry summer in Montreal, as well as across southern and eastern Ontario, has pushed water levels in the lower St. Lawrence River to their lowest August level in more than a decade, affecting fishing, boating and commercial shipping. Read the full story by The Montreal Gazette.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250829-water-levels

James Polidori

Given society’s growing interest in AI, the data center industry will likely continue its rapid expansion. But without a consistent and transparent way to track water consumption over time, the public and government officials will be making decisions about locations, regulations and sustainability without complete information on how these massive companies’ buildings will affect their communities and environments. Read the full story by the Wisconsin State Journal.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250829-data-center-water

James Polidori

Lake Superior State University students are conducting one of the first studies to replicate real oil spill conditions in large mesocosms to potentially change how scientists respond to oil spills in freshwater systems. Read the full story by The Sault Ste. Marie Evening News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250829-oil-spill-research

James Polidori

The Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in West Michigan has officially earned “operations status,” becoming the first commercial nuclear power plant in the U.S. to reopen after a shutdown. Once the 800-megawatt plant in Covert Township resumes power generation, it will provide enough electricity to serve over 800,000 homes and businesses. Read the full story by CBS News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250829-nuclear-plant-restart

James Polidori

The U.S. EPA’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative awarded the Ohio Department of Agriculture a $1 million grant to help expand conservation efforts in the Western Lake Erie Basin to help reduce nutrient runoff. Read the full story by SpectrumNews1.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250829-conservation-grant

James Polidori

Cigarette butts are polluting Lake Erie, prompting local efforts to clean up the shoreline and protect the environment. Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful is leading initiatives to educate the public on the importance of proper disposal to prevent litter from entering the water. Read the full story by WJET-TV – Erie, PA.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250829-cigarette-pollution

James Polidori

A major step in the eventual removal of the Gorge Dam from the Cuyahoga River is about to commence. Dignitaries including Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and U.S. EPA Region 5 Administrator Anne Vogel are expected to celebrate the plan to remove nearly 900,000 cubic yards of sediment from behind the dam. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250829-sediment-removal

James Polidori

The SS Alpena, the oldest working freighter on Michigan’s Great Lakes, is back on course for another shipping season. The ship was built in 1942 and still carries cement to and from Alpena in northern Michigan. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250829-oldest-freighter

James Polidori

Lake Superior is the lone holdout in a mussel invasion that has overtaken every other Great Lake, a salvation credited to low calcium levels, cold water, and relative isolation. But a spate of recent outbreaks are testing old assumptions about the lake’s defenses. Read the full story by Minnesota Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250827-superior-mussels

Nichole Angell