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The spending bill in the Republican-led U.S. House reduces the funding available for Army Corps of Engineers construction projects next year by roughly 44% ― a change that could have consequences for the $3 billion project to build a new Great Lakes freighter shipping lock in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250312-corps-cuts

Taaja Tucker-Silva

With parts of the U.S. facing chronic drought, President Trump has reportedly threatened to tear up joint agreements between the U.S. and Canada regulating the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Financial Post.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250312-trump-freshwater

Taaja Tucker-Silva

The Michigan House Oversight Committee recently reviewed a report on the state’s water withdrawal monitoring program that highlighted data discrepancies, data security concerns, failure to track withdrawal assessments and water use, and a lack of policies for responding to public complaints. Read the full story by Michigan Advance.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250312-michigan-water

Taaja Tucker-Silva

After yearslong litigation with community groups, staunch opposition from residents, and recent resistance from the state environmental agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Tuesday it was dropping a plan to expand a toxic waste dump along Chicago’s Lake Michigan shoreline. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250312-chicago-dump

Taaja Tucker-Silva

New research suggests that the Great Lakes started forming hundreds of millions of years ago, long before the glaciers melted and receded northward. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250312-lake-origins

Taaja Tucker-Silva

Ice on the Great Lakes is steadily retreating under warm spring temperatures. Great Lakes ice coverage stands at 17.3%, with Lake Erie at 32.9% coverage. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250312-ice-retreat

Taaja Tucker-Silva

A new exhibit at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum showcases the history of commercial fishing in Lake Michigan and highlights challenges faced by the industry. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250312-fishing-exhibit

Taaja Tucker-Silva

Trips across Lake Michigan on the SS Badger ferry will begin in mid-May. Before that, the ferry will travel to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, for repairs. Read the full story by WLUK-TV – Green Bay, WI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250312-badger-repairs

Taaja Tucker-Silva

Bird watchers along Lake Huron photographed an orange-colored snowy owl, which has been nicknamed Rusty and Creamsicle. But there is no consensus about what caused its unusual tint. Read the full story by The New York Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250312-orange-owl

Taaja Tucker-Silva

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of the Western Reserve, one of the first steel cargo ships to ply the Great Lakes and which sank in a gale on Lake Superior in August 1892. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250312-superior-shipwreck

Taaja Tucker-Silva

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources leans heavily on hunting and fishing license sales to fund fish stocking, wildlife conservation, and habitat protection. But those fees, now some of the lowest in the Midwest, have been frozen for more than a decade, while fewer and fewer Michiganders buy them, resulting in a funding crisis for the agency. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250303-license-fees

Taaja Tucker-Silva

A former administrator from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the Trump Administration’s decision to terminate hundreds of NOAA employees nationwide has major implications for the Great Lakes region, including the ongoing effort to curb western Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms. Read the full story by The Blade.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250303-layoff-impacts

Taaja Tucker-Silva

A marine researcher has taken a deep dive into North America’s largest freshwater commercial fishing fleet, in Ontario’s Great Lakes, in a new documentary that explores challenges and opportunities local fisheries face in maintaining the industry. Read the full story by the CBC.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250303-fishery-documentary

Taaja Tucker-Silva

A Great Lakes regional organization is working with local leaders to protect the ecosystem from the effects of climate change. Mayor Eddie Melton of Gary, Indiana, has joined the Mayors Commission on Economic Transformation, an initiative that helps foster the creation of a clean economic corridor in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River region, which runs through Canada and into the U.S. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250303-mayors-commission

Taaja Tucker-Silva

The Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority met in Lansing Friday to hear updates on the Line 5 Tunnel Project, especially about the permits that would allow construction to begin. Last week, the Michigan Court of Appeals upheld the state permit, though there’s still time for another appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250303-line-5

Taaja Tucker-Silva

Could the once-ambitious plan to install wind turbines on Lake Erie be resurrected? It’s possible, local wind power advocates believe, now that a Maryland company has taken control of a company that two years ago aborted its effort to erect six wind turbines off the coast of Cleveland, Ohio. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250303-erie-wind

Taaja Tucker-Silva

The three-part documentary series, “All Too Clear: Beneath the Surface of the Great Lakes,” uses cutting-edge underwater drone technology to capture life hundreds of feet below the surface of the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem, resulting in what the filmmakers believe to be the first shots of whitefish spawning in the wild. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250303-mussel-documentary

Taaja Tucker-Silva

During this unusually cold, snowy winter, Lake St. Clair between the U.S. and Canada has been almost completely ice-covered throughout January and February. It has given ice-fishing retailers and their customers a lake to stand on. Read the full story by The Detroit Free Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250303-ice-business

Taaja Tucker-Silva

Great Lakes researchers and communicators with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Michigan are the latest federal employees to be axed amid the ongoing nationwide purge of government workers. In Michigan, NOAA researchers study toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie and help the shipping industry forecast water level changes and ice cover on the Great Lakes. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250303-noaa-purge

Taaja Tucker-Silva

As “The Fish Thief” documentary details, the invasive creature sometimes referred to as a “vampire fish” once wreaked havoc on lake trout and other native species in Midwestern waters. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun-Times.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250303-lamprey-documentary

Taaja Tucker-Silva