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Anxieties are mounting that a water pollution laboratory buttressing Lake Superior’s North Shore is slated to be closed, potentially terminating work for dozens of scientists and shuttering an economic engine for northern Minnesota. Read the full story by The Minnesota Star Tribune.

 

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Despite decades-long efforts to clean up toxic hot spots along Michigan’s Great Lakes shores, a recent study shows that the health of waterbirds in some areas continues to suffer. It found that infertility and weakened immune systems were more prevalent at the contaminated sites than in birds in more pristine areas along Lake Superior at the St. Marys River. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.

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Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller is asking the State of Michigan to take action following an alleged “sickening release” of 1.2 million gallons of raw sewage from neighboring Oakland County on April 3. Read the full story by MWYD-TV – Detroit, MI.

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The H2Ohio program helps farmers grow crops more efficiently while also protecting the environment. A recently proposed 44 percent reduction to the program could have serious consequences, not just for farmers but for the general public as well. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court could hear a case in the coming years centered around Enbridge Energy’s reroute of the pipeline known as Line 5. About 12 miles of the pipeline cuts through the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s reservation, though the easements for the land the pipeline is on have expired. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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As the executive director of the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD) prepares to leave her post, the WLSSD fired up a trio of generators that now convert biogas from the operation of its Duluth sewage-processing facility into power. The new equipment is expected to slash the plant’s annual electrical bill by more than $1 million. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.

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‘Forest-to-table’: Rural, Indigenous communities rely on forests for food, medicine and cultural values, research shows

This article was republished here with permission from Great Lakes Echo.

By Victoria Witke, Great Lakes Echo

When Roger LaBine was younger, he often drove his grandfather to the Ottawa National Forest to hunt porcupines.

“In the fall after the leaves had fallen, he’d take the .22 when we’d go out and hunt porcupine,” LaBine said.

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CHICAGO, IL (April 10, 2025) – Yesterday, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Speaker of the Michigan House Matt Hall engaged with the White House on finalizing the pending Brandon Road invasive carp barrier project. After more than a decade of planning and design, the Brandon Road project was scheduled to move forward in 2025. This project is intended to stop invasive carp from entering the Great Lakes and causing irreversible damage to the Great Lakes and to the people who call it home.  

“We greatly appreciate Michigan Governor Whitmer’s and Michigan Speaker Matt Hall’s commitment to the Brandon Road project and applaud their continued efforts to get this critical invasive carp barrier built,” said Joel Brammeier, president and CEO of the Alliance for the Great Lakes and Marc Smith, Great Lakes policy director for the National Wildlife Federation in a joint statement.

The Brandon Road Lock and Dam was identified as the crucial bottleneck where layered underwater deterrent technologies will be used to stop invasive carp populations from moving into the Great Lakes. Using the Illinois River and other waterways to expand their territory, invasive carp pose a significant threat to the world class fishery and economic vitality of Lake Michigan and the other Great Lakes.  

These invasive fish have already wreaked havoc on the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, causing damage to native fish populations by outcompeting them for food. Silver carp leap into the air when startled, posing the risk of serious injury to people and making infested waters off-limits to boating. Great Lakes communities and industries would be deeply harmed if invasive carp were to get into the Great Lakes or its tributaries and inland lakes.  

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Contacts:

  • Don Carr, Media Director, Alliance for the Great Lakes, dcarr@greatlakes.org
  • Anna Marie Zorn, Great Lakes Senior Communications Manager, National Wildlife Federation zorna@nwf.org  

More about Invasive Carp

Read more about the invasive carp approaching Lake Michigan and the Brandon Road project designed to stop them.

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