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Underserved communities will be able to access $30 million in environmental justice grants for restoration projects in the Great Lakes region under a new federal program. The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it is setting aside the funds as part of the Great Lakes Environmental Justice Grant Program, funded through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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President Joe Biden’s administration took the first step Thursday toward designating the Pennsylvania-owned section of Lake Erie as the state’s first national marine sanctuary. The announcement sets up a public comment period before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration writes a draft plan for the sanctuary. Read the full story by the Associated Press.

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A report by the Environmental Law and Policy Center has identified 12 hot spots along Lake Michigan already impacted by changing water levels and storms related to climate change. Read the full story by WBBM-TV – Chicago, IL.

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Although it’s been standing in Lake Michigan since the 19th century, Chicago’s Harbor Lighthouse is little known except as a quaint feature in social media photos. Now a rescue group hopes to transform it into a tourism magnet. Read the full story by Crain’s Chicago Business.

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In recent weeks a lot of folks have noticed a plethora of dead fish washing up on the shorelines around Western Lake Erie, and in East Harbor and West Harbor. With the public worried that something might be killing our beloved yellow perch or walleye, the Lake Erie Fisheries Administrator for the Ohio Division of Wildlife weighs in.  Read the full story by The Beacon.

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Before the water begins flowing through the new pipeline system to and from Lake Michigan later this summer, the city of Waukesha, Wisconsin, will manage a different kind of flow: public information. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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Lake Erie and its annual algal blooms are the subjects of a recent legal ruling and a topic of discussion for lake goers. According to the most recent projections from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, the 2023 harmful algal bloom is expected to be moderate based on observations through May 16 and the bloom will be smaller if precipitation is at or below average. Read the full story by the WEWS-TV – Cleveland, OH.

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A fishing coalition can’t intervene in negotiations between five Native American tribes, the United States, and Michigan over who gets to manage Great Lakes fisheries, the Sixth Circuit ruled Tuesday. The Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources has been allowed to participate in negotiations as an amicus, but moved to intervene because it says that Michigan is no longer adequately representing its interests. Read the full story by Bloomberg Law.

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Some regional leaders have a vision for the Midwest’s freshwater seas as 94,000 square miles of untapped wind energy potential, boasting consistently strong winds in a region that’s already home to an established manufacturing sector. Read the full story by Stateline.

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After an alarming number of Great Lakes beach drownings last summer, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has updated its flag alert system, adding a new, more serious designation: the double red flags, which goes beyond the single red flag and requires, not just recommends, swimmers to stay out of the water. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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The city of Chicago trumpeted a deal with the Illinois city of Joliet to divert treated drinking water from Lake Michigan, starting in 2030. But how and why Illinois can divert that much water inland underscores risky concessions the other seven Great Lakes states had to make when they negotiated the 2008 Great Lakes Compact. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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Partners working to clean up a polluted hotspot on Lake Superior are now looking to monitor emerging threats from harmful algal blooms. A team of scientists is now deploying sensors to collect more than 300 water samples from the St. Louis River Estuary to track emerging water quality issues. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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New York state water officials are keeping an eye on the Lake Ontario shoreline as the water is higher but still below flooding levels. The lake is seeing more water flow in from seasonal snowmelt up north, and less water flow out a dam on the New York-Canadian water border. Read the full story by WAER – Syracuse, NY.

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In a move to tackle an acute mariner shortage accentuated by the rapid retirement of boomers, Canada has signed an unprecedented agreement with the Philippines, allowing Filipino merchant mariners to serve on Canadian-flagged vessels. This marks a significant shift in international labor arrangements, opening new doors for the robust Filipino seafarer population, but causing worry among Canadian Merchant Mariners that wages could fall. Read the full story by gCaptain.

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Michigan remains the only state without a septic code, with recent efforts failing to gain traction within the Legislature. As the state contends with flooding and sewer backups, addressing individual septic systems is yet another element in addressing aging infrastructure and water quality issues for both inland waters and the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Michigan Advance.

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Local officials have been pursuing a public marina off the Belle River, citing a lack of docking space for boaters around the mid-point along the St. Clair River waterfront between Algonac, Michigan and the city of St. Clair. Read the full story by the Port Huron Times Herald.

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On a windy, Saturday morning, the UAL Fortitude arrived under the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, Minnesota. The Fortitude’s arrival is significant because she’s the first of a regular liner service from overseas. Read the full story by WDIO-TV – Duluth, MN.

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In Michigan’s Port Huron Township, fifth graders released 65 chinook salmon into the Black River as part of an education program with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. An aquatic education coordinator for the DNR said the program teaches students the importance of Great Lakes ecology. Read the full story by the Port Huron Times Herald.

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In Michigan, the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center recently partnered with Alpena Public Schools to host the first-ever “3rd grade Get Into Your Sanctuary Program”, a multi-visit field trip that culminated with the students taking a boat ride to explore the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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The village of Geneva-on-the-Lake in Ohio has joined the Lake County Communities Shoreline Special Improvement District, which will provide an additional funding option for the village to deal with erosion issues harming Lake Erie. Read the full story by the Star Beacon.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230515-shoreline-improvement

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