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In a new lawsuit, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa alleges the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated federal environmental laws when it granted a permit to Enbridge for its proposed Line 5 reroute. Canadian energy firm Enbridge secured a federal permit for the $450 million project from the Army Corps in late October. The company said that permit is not yet final. Read the full story by Iron Mountain Daily News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251217-badriver-tribe-armycorps-overturn-permit-line5

Hannah Reynolds

The educational team at Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is bringing back the free film, Sleeping Bear from Below. The underwater documentary by Inspired Planet Productions shows footage from ROV cameras that captured a “tunnel of salmon” among other aquatic life in the Platte River, Good Harbor Reef, and Lake Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251217-underwater-film-fish-eye-view-sleepingbear

Hannah Reynolds

Each of the five Great Lakes saw an overall decrease in 2025 adult sea lampreys captured, but Lake Superior’s overall population remains above the three-year average. Read the full story by CKNX – Wingham, ON.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251217-sealamprey-control-working-greatlakes

Hannah Reynolds

Experts say that conveyance of water in the St. Clair River area continues and is contributing to lower Lake Huron water levels. This will devastate the Georgian Bay wetlands, make navigation hazardous and make it impossible to get to some cottages. It will be an economic and ecological disaster for Georgian Bay and for the entire coastline including local municipalities. Read the full story by the Manitoulin Expositor.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251217-lakehuron-water-levels-expected-drop

Hannah Reynolds

The U.S. Coast Guard is funding a new round of Great Lakes oil spill research that includes validating spill-tracking models in the Straits of Mackinac, a high-risk shipping corridor crossed by the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251217-coastguard-test-oil-sprill-straits-mackinac

Hannah Reynolds

Data from Lake Michigan sport anglers and fisheries biologists showed a decline in chinook weights in 2025, raising concerns that stocking might have to be reduced in coming years. Read the full story by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251217-chinook-weights-declining-future-stocking

Hannah Reynolds

The Great Lakes region, currently struggling with drought, is now threatened by energy-hungry facilities – but some residents are fighting back. Read the full story by The Guardian.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251217-water-levels-greatlakes-datacenters

Hannah Reynolds

Frigid temperatures have returned to the region, and as of Dec. 16, ice is beginning to form on Lake Erie. Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows that a majority of Lake Erie is ice free. Read the full story by Erie Times-News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251217-lakeerie-ice-noaa

Hannah Reynolds

The Grand Rapids Public Museum and John Ball Zoo have been awarded a grant from the Great Lakes Fishery Trust to support sonar technology for the detection of adult sturgeon. The goal will be to document adult lake sturgeon as they move upriver to spawn and find non-invasive methods of monitoring these lake sturgeon. Read the full story by WGRD – Grand Rapids, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251217-johnballzoo-grandrapids-museum-awardedgrant-lakesturgeon

Hannah Reynolds

Some ice has started to form along Lake Erie’s western edge, though federal scientists say these patches represent only the earliest stages of freeze-up, not the onset of lake wide ice. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251212-ice-lake-erie

Hannah Reynolds

Earlier this week, the Great Lakes PFAS Action Network announced an interactive mapping tool to help protect Michigan anglers looking to reel in a meal. Read the full story by Michigan Advance.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251212-pfas-action-group-map-eat-safe-fish

Hannah Reynolds

The village of Elberta, Michigan, has been awarded a $5.3 million grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources for the development of a waterfront park. The park project will be on 16 acres of property near the mouth of Betsie Bay, including Lake Michigan shoreline, which will eventually be transferred to the village from the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy. Read the full story by Benzie County Record Patriot.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251212-waterfront-park-elberta

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John U. Bacon spent nearly four years researching and writing his new book about the Edmund Fitzgerald. The public has caught on to the new release titled The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251212-john-u-bacon-edmund-fitzgerald-book

Hannah Reynolds

Great Lakes shipping to ports like the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor and the Port of Chicago got off to a strong start in the 66^th navigation season. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251212-greatlakes-shipping

Hannah Reynolds

If the predictions turn out to be accurate, it will be a second year in row of normal ice cover on the Great Lakes – a reprieve, given that winter is changing the most. The season has shortened by several weeks and is becoming increasingly warmer and wetter. Read the full story by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251212-winter-ice-cover-impacts-greatlakes

Hannah Reynolds

Two municipalities in northeast Wisconsin are getting federal funding to replace lead service lines. More than $159 million has been allocated to 29 municipalities across the state, including Manitowoc and Oshkosh, to ensure Wisconsinites have access to clean, safe drinking water that is free of lead. Read the full story by WTAQ – Green Bay, WI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251212-manitowoc-oshkosh-replace-lead-water-lines

Hannah Reynolds

Michigan House Republicans have unilaterally blocked about $8.3 million in spending aimed at helping residents of Flint deal with the long-term fallout of the drinking water crisis, as the GOP leader, Speaker Matt Hall, said the emergency in the city is over. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251212-house-speaker-flint-watercrisis

Hannah Reynolds

Research shows that the United States would need to invest nearly $3.4 trillion over the next 20 years to sufficiently fix and update its drinking water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure. Much of the country’s water infrastructure was built 40 to 50 years ago and is showing its age. Michigan’s is no exception. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251212-michigan-water-infrastructure-work

Hannah Reynolds

The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Northern Great Lakes began ice-breaking operations in the Great Lakes on Wednesday for the winter shipping season. Currently, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Spar will manage the ice-breaking needs of Western Lake Superior, specifically Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin. Read the full story by WXYZ-TV – Detroit, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251212-coastguard-ice-breaking-greatlakes

Hannah Reynolds