Windsor resident Ian Parish, 39, has some advice to share after completing a 280-kilometre solo trip on Lake Erie last month. Read the full story by the Windsor Star.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200813-kayaker
Farm groups are suing the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) to stop the state from changing the rules for spreading manure. Read the full story by Michigan Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200813-manure-dispute
Environmental regulators in Wisconsin voted Wednesday to table rules setting new restrictions on firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals. Read the full story by the Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200813-wisconsin-pfas
The Nature Conservancy estimates, under the Trump administration’s new Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, 55 percent of remaining wetlands in Wisconsin will lose federal protection. Read and listen to the full story by WXPR- Rhinelander, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200813-wisconsin-wetlands
An administrative law judge granted Bay Mills Indian Community the right to intervene in the ongoing pipeline fight uniting Tribes, environmental groups and community members against oil giant Enbridge. The decision will allow Bay Mills to be a party in the contested case process evaluating Enbridge’s Michigan Public Service Commission’s permit application. Read the full story by Earth Justice.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200813-enbridge-pipeline
Researchers from the Lake Erie Center have been analyzing this year’s algal bloom for the past few weeks, which has been rated a 5 out of 10 for severity. Read and view the full story by WNWO -TV-Toledo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200813-erie-algal-bloom
Crews have completed the first phase of a new “resiliency” project at Fair Haven Beach State Park in Cayuga County, New York on Lake Ontario. Read the full story by The Central New York Business Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200813-resiliency-project
A marine and construction design company owned by artist Pepsy Kettavong, Novat Shoreline LLC, has designed the Smart BreakWall Diversion System to prevent property destruction caused by shoreline erosion from high waves along major bodies of water. Read the full story by the Rochester Beacon.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200813-shoreline-protection
During Scott Pruitt’s brief stint as the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, his bizarre behavior was considered almost comical. With Pruitt gone, and Andrew Wheeler in his place, nobody is laughing about anything that has to do with the EPA anymore or the environmental rollbacks the Trump administration has put into place. Read the full story by Downtown News Magazine.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200812-rollbacks
An eco-explorer recently added a kayak trip across Lake Ontario to his long list of adventures. The Toronto-native began the 355-kilometre journey in Hamilton, Ontario, and eventually made it to the Thousand Islands region 20 days later — all while raising money for charity. Read the full story by CTV News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200812-kayak-ontario
In Wisconsin, Racine’s Department of Park, Recreation and Cultural Services announced on Tuesday that the path between the Lake Michigan shoreline and the Racine Zoo is officially closed due to erosion. Read the full story by The Journal Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200812-pathway
Read an unabridged interview with the assistant fisheries chief for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, who specializes in invasives. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun-Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200812-invasives
In Ontario, crews and excavators in Bright’s Grove have rumbled back into action to continue the battle for Sarnia-Lambton’s shoreline. The erosion is due to Lake Huron reaching record heights this year. Read the full story by The Sarnia Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200812-shoreline
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced that an independent forensic investigation team will look into what caused the Michigan’s Edenville and Sanford dams to fail. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200812-dams
Great Lakes steel output ticked up last week after U.S. Steel and ArcelorMittal brought more blast furnaces that had been sidelined during the coronavirus pandemic back online. Read the full story by the Northwest Indiana Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200812-furnaces
After decades of cleanup and millions and millions of dollars spent, the Lower Menominee River is no longer one of the most polluted spots on the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WLUK-TV-Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200812-menominee
The Ohio Lake Erie Commission and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency are seeking public comments for the proposed removal of a “beneficial use impairment” that restricts navigational dredging activities within the Ashtabula River Area of Concern. Read the full story by the Star Beacon.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200812-AOC
Microplastics have been found in the Great Lakes on shorelines and in surface water and lake floor sediments. Ongoing research finds that laundry microfibres are a major source of microplastics found in freshwater. Read the full story by the Manitoulin Expositor.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200812-plastic-pollution
Enbridge has said it won’t seek to condemn private property for the proposed pipeline relocation around Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa reservation because it’s reached agreements with approximately 300 landowners. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200811-enbridge-line5-wisconsin
New findings from an Indiana state-wide survey conducted by Indiana University’s Environmental Resilience Institute indicate that racial disparity extends to how Hoosiers perceive climate change and its risks. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200811-climate-perception
An Indiana steelmaker is still violating its wastewater permits by discharging an excess amount of ammonia as recently as July, according to an analysis by Chicago-based Environmental Law & Policy Center. Read the full story by Post-Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200811-ammonia-steel-pollution
Proponents of the launch site advocate for the projected economic development; those against the proposed launch site emphasize the impact to the sensitive shoreline and cite potential pollution to The Great Lakes. Read the full story by Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200811-rockets-michigan-pollution
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency documents how the Rainy River has been transformed, with water quality now defined as “good to excellent,” providing clean drinking water, and a world-class walleye and sturgeon fishery. Read and listen to the full story by Minnesota Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200811-rainy-river-minnesota-pollution
Several large lake sturgeon have been found along Lake Michigan at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan; there have been multiple instances this summer. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200811-sturgeon-sleeping-bear
Through a cooperative effort of federal, state, and local government agencies, electric companies, and others, Sturgeon Passage Project on Wisconsin’s Menominee River was built, complete with a fish elevator, to help transport the fish back and forth between Sturgeon Falls and Lake Michigan. Read the full story by Daily Yonder.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200811-sturgeon-population
Two shipwrecks off the coast of the town of Hammond in St. Lawrence County may have the chance to be included in the proposal to establish a national marine sanctuary on Lake Ontario. Read the full story by NNY 360.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200811-shipwrecks-marine-sanctuary
Residents were concerned as around 80 ducks were found around a pond in Westland, MI. The Department of Natural Resources has concluded Avian Botulism to be the cause. Read and view the full story by WXYZ-TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200811-avian-botulism-detroit
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is enlisting the help of researchers to map the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, which encompasses 4,300 square miles of Lake Huron. Read the full story by WBKB-TV – Alpena, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200810-thunder-bay
A team from the University of Minnesota Duluth has identified two major factors that contribute to the presence of algae blooms in Lake Superior: a warm year, combined with major weather events or historic rainfall. Read the full story by WLNS-TV – Lake Superior, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200810-superior-algae-blooms
At least 84 waterspouts (whirling columns of air and water mist) were recorded over the Great Lakes last week, for the first time in 2020. Read the full story by WDIV-TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200810-waterspouts
Climate change is worsening toxic algal blooms in Lake Erie, posing a threat to tourism and recreation. Read the full story by Inside Climate News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200810-toxic-green-slime
City and state officials in Oswego County, New York, broke ground on more than $6 million of improvements to Wright’s Landing Marina that will make the marina more flood resistant and pedestrian friendly. Read the full story by The Palladium Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200810-oswego-waterfront
State environmental regulators from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy say minimal damage is anticipated for a small Hillsdale County dam following a partial breach. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200810-dam-damage
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that for each of the Great Lakes, except Lake Superior, water levels have likely reached their peak for the year and are predicted to decline. Read the full story by WWMT-TV – Kalamazoo, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200810-lakes-peak
Nature is returning to the craters left from the lakes that were drained when two dams failed during torrential rain in mid-Michigan in May. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200810-plants
Despite all the investments, Chicago and communities on the North Shore are once again scrambling to cope with the effects of an overflowing Lake Michigan. Read the full story by The Chicago Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200810-higher-lake-michigan
Demand is booming for boating in the Great Lakes states due to the coronavirus crisis, and that’s fueling interest in vessel ownerships and boat-sharing memberships. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200810-michigan-boating
Shoreline communities around the Great Lakes are urging the federal government to invest more than $500 million in waterfront protection efforts and more than $20 billion in federal water infrastructure funding. Read the full story by The Voice News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-water-infra
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy is accusing Boyce Hydro of impeding the department’s ability to assess the remaining danger from two collapsed dams that flooded Midland County earlier this year. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-midland-dam
Milwaukee’s 467-acre port will undergo major upgrades to build an agricultural export facility and construct a new connector rail-line at the port. Read the full story by Urban Milwaukee.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-mke-port
While Lake Michigan water temperatures are above-average this year, some areas along the Michigan coast have seen fluctuations of 30-degrees Fahrenheit due to upwelling of colder waters from the bottom of the lake to the surface. Read the full story by WBCK – Battle Creek, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-lake-mich-temps
Researchers at Loyola University in Chicago are trapping invasive red swamp crayfish on the Chicago River system near Lake Michigan to understand their ecological dynamics and develop possible control mechanisms for slowing their spread. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-crayfish
In the eyes of the law, water bodies remain largely unprotected. Legal scholar Kelsey Leonard says granting legal personhood to water bodies like the Great Lakes can transform how we value this vital resource. Read the full story by NPR.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-legal-rights
A group of six swimmers from Holland, Michigan, are attempting to do a 40-mile swim relay-style across Lake Michigan from Two Rivers, Wisconsin, to Ludington, Michigan. Read the full story by the Holland Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-swim-lake-mich
With the recent high-water levels on Lake Superior, high-waves and storms have caused large runoff landslides, rock falls, tree blow-downs and new sand deposits along the Apostle Islands shorelines. Read the full story by the RiverTowns.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200807-lake-superior
Replacement work on a section of Line 5 running under the St. Clair River through Marysville, Michigan has been completed. Read the full story by the Port Huron Times Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200806-enbridge
A hot summer has helped to push Lake Superior’s average water temperature several degrees above the long-term normal for this time of year. Read the full story by the Thunder Bay News Watch.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200806-superior-temperatures
As he canoed the shores of Lake Huron for a month, Waasekom of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, considered his role as a steward of the land and water and sought to remind others of their responsibilities to protect both. Read the full story by Collingwood Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200806-canoe-journey
Deanna van Dijk, a professor of geology, geography, and environmental studies at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, had 1,250 tons of sand delivered to campus on Tuesday, August 4 for hands-on study of sand dunes. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200806-sand-dunes
In what might be the last hope to keep the invalidated Lake Erie Bill of Rights alive, Toledo activist Mike Ferner implored Ohio’s Sixth District Court of Appeals to think outside the box and be brave enough to put the world’s 11th largest freshwater lake first. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200806-Erie-BOR
