The journey to hold several officials accountable in court regarding the Flint water crisis in Michigan is over after a ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court. Read the full story by Midland Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231101-flint-water-crisis
A deal was reached Sunday between Unifor and the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp to end a week-long strike that had shut down a major shipping artery in the Great Lakes, halting the flow of grain and other goods from the U.S. and Canada. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231030-strike-agreement
On October 11, 1923, the Cetus, a fully loaded bulk freighter, crashed into the Huronton, an empty bulk freighter, in Lake Superior about 20 miles northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan. Over the summer, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society found the wreck of the Huronton for the first time. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231030-shipwreck-found
Associate Professor Drew Gronewold at the University of Michigan’s School of Environment and Sustainability is leading a new research center designed to strengthen climate change resilience in communities that span international boundaries and jurisdictions. The project is funded by a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, with additional funding expected over the next five years. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231030-climate-research-center
In Midland, Michigan, the Midland Business Alliance’s Advisory Committee on Infrastructure is finishing its plans to utilize a $40 million state allocation for flood reduction infrastructure. Read the full story by Midland Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231030-flood-planning
The S.S. Keewatin, one of the world’s largest remaining Edwardian steamships, has arrived at its new home at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston, Ontario, after sailing through the Great Lakes from Georgian Bay. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231030-steamship-relocation
A rare USCG Type TR Motor Lifeboat CG 36381, a 36-foot-long vessel, will soon be on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Museum in Whitefish Point, Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231030-lifeboat-display
In Sterling Heights, Michigan, the Sterling Heights Historical Commission unveiled the Holcombe Beach Historical Marker, which tells the story of the early Indigenous people in the Great Lakes region who made their home in the area surrounding the marker. Read the full story by the Macomb Daily.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231030-historic-marker-unveiled
The WATERshed Program of Southeast Wisconsin has received more than $30,000 in grants to help Racine students learn about the value of living in a coastal community with freshwater resources, and to explore career paths in freshwater science and coastal engineering during the 2023-24 school year. Read the full story by The Journal Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231030-education-funding
A judge in Suttons Bay, Michigan, ordered the owner of a barge best known for repeatedly sinking in Lake Michigan to either sell or relocate the barge out of Great Lakes waters by December 8th. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231030-barge-ruling
The Freshwater Summit in Traverse City, Michigan, was held for its 16th year last Friday to cast a wider net into freshwater research in northern Michigan. Many of the organizations taking part represent the continuing efforts on initiatives that impact the Great Lakes and Grand Traverse Bay regions. Read the full story by Up North Live.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231030-invasive-species-summit
A 4.5-mile stretch of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 pipeline that runs under the Straits of Mackinac has sparked anger, lawsuits, and serious concerns about the threat it poses to the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WDIV – TV –Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231027-line5
On Wednesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and local partners announced a new $100 million agreement to clean up nearly 875,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment under the Cuyahoga River, marking the first step toward removing the Gorge Metro Park dam in Ohio. Read the full story by the Akron Beacon Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231027-gorge-dam
An autonomous quiet research vessel called Saildrone just set a new milestone with its return to port after 60 days on the Great Lakes. The fleet of these surface vessels has traveled 1 million nautical miles at sea. Read the full story by WPBN -TV – Traverse City, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231027-saildrone
On Wednesday morning, Michigan legislators joined environmental advocates to break down the details of a newly introduced “polluter pay” package intended to bolster the state of Michigan’s environmental cleanup standards. Read the full story by Michigan Advance.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231027-pollution-bill
Research is being performed on sea lamprey in Marquette Township, Michigan, to find out where the population is moving and how it can be controlled. Read the full story by WLUC – TV – Marquette, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231027-lamprey
A cleanup project at a former industrial complex on the banks of the St. Louis River in Duluth, Minnesota, is almost finished. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231027-duluth-cleanup
In June, the Brushwood Center in Lake County, Illinois, released a report that looks at the unequal effects of climate change on local communities of differing racial backgrounds. Read the full story by WTTW – TV – Chicago, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231027-climate-justice
Monroe County, New York has made important improvements to their sewer system to combat some of the effects of climate change and protect local waterways. Read the full story by WROC – TV – Rochester, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231027-climate-resiliency
The Navy’s newest Littoral Combat Ship cannot make its way to the Atlantic Ocean after finding itself in the middle of a strike by St. Lawrence Seaway employees. Read the full story by USNI News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231027-marinette-strike
Residents of Biigtigong Nishnaabeg First Nation, on the north shore of Lake Superior in Ontario, are set to enjoy greatly improved access to clean water thanks to an expansion of water treatment services and water sourced from Lake Superior. Read the full story by Northern Ontario Business.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231027-superior-water
A major effort to restore nearly 200 acres of wetland habitat at Powderhorn Prairie and Marsh Nature Preserve on Chicago’s Southeast Side is now complete after more than three years of work. The $1.2 million restoration project aims to restore natural historic water levels in the area, alleviate flooding and improve wildlife habitat. Read the full story by WTTW-TV – Chicago, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-wetlands-restoration-chicago-powderhornlake
Shipping on Lake Michigan and the Ohio River delivers an economic impact of more than $29.8 billion annually to Indiana’s economy and supports more than 158,000 jobs, according to new study. Read the full story by the News and Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-maritimeshipping-economy-indiana
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducted an electrofishing operation on the St. Joseph River in Benton Harbor, Michigan, on Tuesday, surveying for grass carp and other invasive species. Read the full story by WXMI-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-usfws-invasivecarp-stjosephriver
Governor Kathy Hochul announced construction is complete on resilience projects in Monroe County, New York. The $10.4 million projects included improvements to the sewage system in Hamlin, and an upgrade to Sandbar Park in Webster. Read the full story by WHAM-TV – Rochester, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-lakeontarioflooding-hamlin
City of Muskegon, Michigan, officials are considering purchasing 10 lakefront parcels at the former Sappi paper mill site on Muskegon Lake to increase public access on the property, which is slated for a massive mixed-use redevelopment by its pending new owner. Read the full story by Crain’s Grand Rapids Business.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-muskegon-lakefrontproperty-formerpapermill
The federal government has instructed workers and management in the St. Lawrence Seaway strike to sit down with a mediator this Friday and hash out their differences, as groups ranging from grain farmers to steelmakers feel the squeeze. Read the full story by The Canadian Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-stlawrenceseaway-strike-negotiations
The transition from groundwater to Lake Michigan water for Waukesha, Wisconsin, is nearing its end, and residents are beginning to form opinions. According to a mid-October Milwaukee Journal Sentinel survey , the new water source tastes fine. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-newwaukesha-water-lakemichigan
A labor strike has shut down a major artery for transporting goods between the Great Lakes and overseas ports, leaving some oceangoing vessels stranded or waiting to enter. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231025-seaway-strike
The St. Lawrence Seaway has shut down as hundreds of workers walked off the job Sunday. The halt is expected to affect cargo shipments immediately along the artery that runs between Montreal and Lake Erie. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-seaway-strike
In the middle of western Lake Erie, just south of the boundary line for Canadian waters, is a collection of islands where critical environmental research helps protect the shallowest but richest in fish among the Great Lakes. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-lake-erie-islands
One of Michigan’s top environmental officials, Teresa Siedel, has accepted a position as chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes office. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-cheif-of-usepa
The Alliance of Rouge Communities recently held a summit to recap restoration efforts in the Great Lakes and talk about what’s coming down the pipeline as the result of Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding. Read the full story by the Press & Guide.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-alliance-of-rouge
A bill introduced in the Michigan Legislature last week could expand commercial fishing in state waters. House Bill 5108 would allow commercial harvest of certain sport fish previously off-limits to commercial fishers, including species like lake trout, walleye, and yellow perch. Read the full story by Interlochen Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-commercial-fishing
Invasive plants and animals are all around us. The Plain Dealer recently talked with local experts to learn more about invasive plants and animals inhabiting Northeast Ohio. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-invasive-species
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has lent her support to the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians’ efforts to shut down part of Enbridge Energy Company’s Line 5. Read the full story by Interlochen Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-line-5
People in the water during potential rip current conditions at public beaches in New Buffalo, Michigan, will now be subject to fines starting at $500. Boaters also face the same penalty if heading to Lake Michigan in the city’s public channel during lake conditions viewed as too dangerous for their watercraft. Read the full story by the South Bend Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-swimming-fines
Trebuchets and soaring gourds continue to be a popular combination every fall in Clayton, New York, drawing in thousands who watch as machines send pumpkins flying into the St. Lawrence River. Read the full story by WWNY-TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-punkin-chunkin
Federal attempts to clean up pollution in the Great Lakes region are increasing property values, according to a study from the University of Michigan. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-pollution-remediation
The Detroit News spent four months exploring the ways climate change will send ripple effects through the Great Lakes and their ecosystems. For this series, the article highlights an issue on each Great Lake, interviewing those on the front lines of climate-related research. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-climate-change
Republicans in the Michigan Senate are sending a letter to federal and state officials urging the start of a pipeline tunnel project under the Straits of Mackinac. The Great Lakes Tunnel project would house the Line 5 pipeline that currently runs exposed along the lakebed. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-line-5
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is revisiting proposed regulations for ballast water standards on ships to reduce the spread of invasive species. That could mean newer vessels on the Great Lakes would have to install treatment systems. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-ballast-water
Three commercial fishing companies in Door County, Wisconsin are signing on to an innovative new project on the Great Lakes called 100% Great Lakes Fish Pledge. This initiative has a goal of using 100% of each fish by the year 2025. Read the full story by WBAY-TV – Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-100-great-lakes-fish
In the quest to defend Michigan’s rivers against climate change, government officials and fish advocates are increasingly zeroing in on a simple strategy that can lower water temperatures by several degrees and open up miles of new habitat: removing dams. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-dam-removal
The Great Lakes Museum has announced the S.S. Keewatin, the oldest remaining Edwardian-era steamliner in the world, will move from the shipyard where it is currently being refurbished to its new home in Kingston, Ontario on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Read the full story by the Kingstonist.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-s.s.-keewatin
Five decades ago, the Cuyahoga River was a symbol of all that was wrong with the environment. Now it’s believed to be clean enough for the ancient lake sturgeon to make its home. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-lake-sturgeon
As the days grow shorter and the temperatures tumble, it won’t be much longer before Lake Michigan’s buoys will get pulled in for the season. This winter, however, a new type of buoy is hoping to make sure scientists have access to the vital weather data these buoys provide all year. Read the full story by WWMT-TV – Kalamazoo, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-weather-alert-bouy
For decades, Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula was home to more than 100 copper mines and the mining waste has impacted the shores of Lake Superior. The U.S. Forest Service is hoping that a specialized poplar tree will remove the heavy metals from the soil and stabilize the area, with the goal of preventing the stamp sands from shifting further. Read the full story by WXPR – Rhinelander, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-mining-waste
An author and researcher of the paranormal and cryptozoology fields will talk on folklore, sightings, and evidence surrounding some of the most legendary and mysterious creatures believed to inhabit our Great Lakes. Read the full story by Morning Sun.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231018-cryptozoology
An autonomous quiet vessel that has been traveling across the Great Lakes gathering valuable fish population data is back on dry land in Charlevoix, Michigan. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231018-saildrone-return
