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From toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes to sewage pouring into Detroit basements to choking wildfire smoke that drifted south from Canada, Michigan has been contending with the fallout from climate change. Historically, Michigan has been resistant to environmental regulations in the manufacturing industry, but that could soon change. Read the full story by The New York Times.

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The intense drought that hit the region for May and much of June helped keep Lake Superior from rising its usual amount in June. The International Lake Superior Board of Control said the big lake’s water level remained unchanged in June, a month it usually goes up by nearly 3 inches. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.

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As the effects of climate change become harder to ignore, there’s not a place on the planet that won’t feel an impact. However, Michigan will see comparatively fewer issues related to high temperatures, water access, and economic instability. Read the full story by CBS News Detroit.

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With threats of spying impacting some naval operations, the Defense Department is thinking about safer locations for some of its most sensitive testing and scientific programs. One idea is to place them away from ocean coasts in the less-vulnerable American Midwest along the Great Lakes. Read the full story by gCaptain.

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Visitors and their pets are advised to avoid the waters of Michigan’s inland Swan Lake after health officials received positive test results for suspected algae blooms, according to Allegan County Health Department. Read the full story by WWMT-TV – Kalamazoo, MI.

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Initially rejecting NRG’s plan to close two coal ash ponds at its Waukegan electrical generating plant adjacent to Lake Michigan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awaiting public comment and further study before making a final decision. Read the full story by the Lake County News-Sun.

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This year when volunteer cleaners arrived at the White Shoal lighthouse in northern Lake Michigan, they were met with a bumper crop of dead flies known as midges, which had piled up so thick on the lighthouse’s deck that they had to be shoveled off. Read the full story by MLive.com.

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A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision removed federal protections for many wetlands, leaving states to decide whether and how to protect them. In a watershed like the Great Lakes basin, wetland protections are only as good as the state with the weakest laws. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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Volunteers in Ellisburg, New York, are trying to make South Sandy Creek more resilient by increasing biodiversity. In just a few days, the team introduced 6,000 plants, including 25 different native species to the region. Read the full story by WWNY-TV – Carthage, NY.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230628-invasive-resilience

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One of Metro Detroit’s most well-known historic estates is getting a $7 million federal grant to restore Ford Cove on Lake St. Clair, improve habitats for local species and make it more accessible. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230628-restoration-grant

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In New York, SUNY Cortland and SUNY Oswego are collaborating with the federal Tunison Lake Ontario Biological Station and several other groups to determine the best ways to transport, raise and reintroduce the coregonine subfamily of freshwater fish. Read the full story by WXHC – Homer, NY.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230628-fish-restoration

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The H. Lee White Maritime Museum in Oswego, New York, is hosting a new exhibit featuring twenty-five 3D printed and hand painted scale models of shipwrecks located beneath the waters of Lake Ontario and Central New York. Read the full story by Oswego County Today.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking comment on the next phase of an Obama-era Great Lakes program that has become one of the region’s largest for environmental cleanups and wildlife restoration over the past 13 years. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.

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Captain Paul Berger Jr., of the Interlake Steamship Company, said he is “at home” this shipping season aboard the M/V Mesabi Miner—an iron ore freighter dedicated to the Men and Women of Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range. Read the full story by the Mesabi Tribune.

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American Queen Voyages has announced that it will no longer offer Great Lakes cruises after this year. AQV President Cindy D’Aoust said the Midwest’s winters don’t make fiscal sense for the company and it plans to plans to sell the two vessels it operates on the Lakes, Ocean Navigator and Ocean Voyager. Read the full story by WOOD-TV Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Wisconsin state regulators say they’re making progress on an environmental review of Enbridge’s plans to relocate Line 5 as a federal judge has ordered a partial shutdown of the oil and gas pipeline on the Bad River reservation. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Chemical manufacturer 3M Co. will pay at least $10.3 billion to settle lawsuits over contamination of many U.S. public drinking water systems with potentially harmful compounds used in firefighting foam and a host of consumer products, the company said Thursday. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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The U.S. Department of Commerce recently announced a first-ever $575 million competitive funding opportunity to help coastal and Great Lake communities increase their resilience to extreme weather and rising sea levels. Read the full story by American City & County.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230626-climate-funding

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Potentially record numbers of lake herring born last spring seem to have survived their first year of life, according to state and federal biologists. The boom will help sustain both the ecosystem and Minnesota’s commercial fishing industry for years to come. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230623-herring

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Researchers from SUNY Oswego and SUNY Cortland in New York will work with the U.S. Geological Survey and other entities on a conservation and restoration project focused on native fish species in the Great Lakes, funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Read the full story by The Citizen.

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In New York, a high school teacher is about to embark on a Great Lakes journey as she was selected nationally among 15 other teachers from Great Lakes states to participate in the Federal EPA’s research vessel on Lake Ontario for a workshop on board the Lake Guardian ship. Read the full story by WKBW-TV – Buffalo, NY.

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The Ohio Division of Wildlife’s brand-new fish cleaning stations in Marblehead, Huron and Avon Lake are up and running, and so is one constructed by the Cleveland Metroparks at Cleveland Lakefront State Park in Cleveland Harbor. Read the full story by the Plain Dealer.

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Although there is no schedule for the traffic through the Soo Locks, which connects Lake Superior to the lower Great Lakes, there are several ways to find out which freighters will pass through the Poe and MacArthur locks, traversing between lakes Superior and Huron.  Read the full story by MLive.

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For the past two years, a multi-institutional collaborative research team has worked on developing new technology to collect data and make discoveries in the ocean and the Great Lakes. The researchers will present that work as part of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Lecture Series. Read the full story by the Alpena News.

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An emerging Indigenous leader aims to compile the Indigenous knowledge of climate change adaptation throughout the country, and share it with tribal and non-tribal people to create the next Status of Tribes and Climate Change Report. Read the full story by WUWM – Milwaukee, WI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230621-indigenousknowledge-climatechange

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In a project funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Ocean Exploration Program, three universities have teamed up to explore the depths of Lake Huron’s Thunder Bay near Alpena, Michigan. Their goal is to develop methods to deploy autonomous underwater robots to search for shipwrecks, and then survey shipwrecks with their sensors. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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Residents of Paradise, Michigan, say a legacy dump site has been ignored for decades. The site is slowly releasing toxic chemicals into Lake Superior, and there doesn’t appear to be a plan to stop it. Read the full story by Interlochen Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230621-contaminatedsite-lakesuperior

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Those in Michigan who want the Line 5 oil and gas pipeline shut down believe a recent ruling from a federal judge in Wisconsin could impact a pending legal case against Enbridge and disrupt company plans. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230621-wisconsin-line5-shutdown-disruptpipelinefight

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There is a lot of dredging work to be done in Lake Michigan harbors after an uptick in severe storms and a drop in shoreline ice during winter. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers currently is overseeing 24-hour dredging in Grand Haven, Michigan, when weather is favorable to remove sand shoaling that blocks the harbor from commercial vessels. Read the full story by MLive.

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It’s finally starting to feel like summer in Michigan, but officials are reminding residents and visitors that it will still be a bit before water temperatures are considered safe. U.S. Coast Guard officials took to social media to remind the public about the risks of cold water, including hypothermia and “cold shock.” Read the full story by MLive.

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