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By Camila Bello Castro
A recent case study of a former “abandonment tourism” business in Detroit found a disconnect between the lived experience of many city residents and the lives of the tour participants who were generally white, younger and more international than most Detroiters and generally first-time visitors to the city.
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Catch the latest updates on what’s happening with PFAS in the Great Lakes region. Check back for more PFAS news roundups every other week on our website.
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission recently approved a proposal from the Pennsylvania-American Water Company (PAWC) to issue over $18 million in bill credits to customers.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/11/more-than-18m-approved-in-bill-credits-for-pennsylvania-customers-in-forever-chemicals-settlement/
for immediate release From Field to Filter: Local Farmers Restore 80 Acres to Protect Lake Poygan New Fox-Wolf and Waushara County project shows how marginal land can help keep nutrients out of local lakes WAUSHARA COUNTY, WI - Some fields just aren't worth farming. In Waushara County, three local landowners are [...]
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https://fwwa.org/2025/11/19/media-release-field-to-filter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=media-release-field-to-filter
This is an excerpt from the book “The Great Black Swamp: Toxic algae, toxic relationships, and the most interesting place in America that nobody’s ever heard of.” Available for purchase on November 11, 2025, by Belt Publishing.
“The Worst Road in America”
Disasters do not happen overnight.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/11/the-history-of-taming-the-great-black-swamp/
New research by a scientist at Ohio’s Bowling Green State University has found that using dredged material from Lake Erie in place of fertilizer for agricultural practices appears to be correlated to higher crop growth and yields. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251119-agricultural-research
American shippers are at odds with the Canadian government over its regulations that require all Great Lakes vessels or “lakers” to install systems to treat their ballast water by 2030. The systems are aimed at preventing the spread of invasive species through ballast water that’s taken up or discharged by ships at Great Lakes ports when they load and unload cargo. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251119-ballast-regulations
Two Michigan Congressional delegates have introduced bipartisan legislation that would devote $500 million over the next decade to battling invasive quagga and zebra mussels, which have destabilized the Great Lakes food web and driven whitefish populations toward collapse. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251119-mussel-funding
The fate of Enbridge’s Line 5 reroute project around tribal land in northern Wisconsin remains uncertain as parties submit post-trial briefs following the weeks-long contested case hearing over permits issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Enbridge faces a court-ordered deadline to get the pipeline off the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s land by June 2026 — although that decision is under appeal as well. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251119-pipeline-case
A Lake Superior shoreline restoration project is nearing completion in Marquette, Michigan. The Superior Watershed Partnership began the project in 2017 with $2 million in funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and a $2.5 million National Coastal Resiliency grant that the city of Marquette is matching. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Marquette, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251119-shoreline-restoration
Last week, nuclear accountability organizations filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the owner of the Palisades nuclear power plant on Lake Michigan in Covert, Michigan. The lawsuit argues an exemption granted by the NRC to allow the plant to reopen was improper and asks the court to prohibit approval of the exemption. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251119-nuclear-restart-lawsuit
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission on Tuesday held its first collection of steelhead trout of the season along Trout Run at Avonia Beach in Avonia, Pennsylvania. Fish eggs from five female trout are combined with milt from three male trout, fertilizing the eggs to become the next generation of steelhead trout in Lake Erie. Read the full story by WJET-TV – Erie, PA.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251119-trout-spawning
A federal judge has ruled that an Elk Rapids, Michigan, food processing company illegally polluted wetlands and tributaries that drain to Elk Lake and ultimately to Lake Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251119-wetland-pollution
It was 67 years ago Tuesday that the SS Carl D. Bradley sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan near Beaver Island, claiming the lives of thirty-three men. On Saturday, between 100 and 150 people attended a bell-ringing ceremony at the Great Lakes Lore Maritime Museum in Rogers City, Michigan, to remember the crew. Read the full story by WCMU – Mount Pleasant, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251119-shipwreck-remembrance
In Illinois, the City of Joliet is working to approve a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) to establish a collaborative framework between the city, labor unions, and contractors to ensure that work is completed safely, efficiently, and in the best financial interest of residents. The PLA applies to eight major work packages that include essential improvements to the city’s water system, all of which are required to facilitate the delivery of Lake Michigan water by 2030. Read the full story by WJOL – Joliet, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251119-labor-collaboration
A U.S.-based cruise company won’t be launching its new Great Lakes itineraries out of Cleveland next year as originally planned, opting instead to launch from Buffalo, New York. Toledo will be the cruise company’s only port call in Ohio. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251119-cruise-launch
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Give to Clean Water Close to Home This Giving Tuesday Some of the most meaningful work for clean water in our region happens right where we live. Along the river you pass on your way to work. Near the park where your kids play. In the fields just outside of town. When we [...]
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The race to save whitefish, a restaurant with local flavors and the Erie Canal turns 200.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/11/fight-to-save-lake-whitefish/
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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By Akia Thrower
A new study reveals how gray wolves in Isle Royale National Park seasonally alter their habitat preferences to align with beavers’ habitat preferences, a shift that might have implications for the island’s ecosystem.
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This year marks the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal, the waterway connecting Lake Erie to the Hudson River, New York City, and the Atlantic Ocean. The canal slashed the time and cost it took to transport people and products across upstate New York, helping to hasten westward expansion and industrialization and built New York City into the financial capital of the United States.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/11/erie-canal/
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has several improvements underway in Erie, including a plan to increase the number of steelhead trout it produces and a new vessel. Read the full story by Erie-Times News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251117-pa-steelhead
Stanton Yards, a Detroit riverfront development, aims to be a gathering place where people find inspiration in art and reconnect with nature through the transformation of the former Gregory Marina. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251117-stantonyards
New research reveals how gray wolves in Isle Royale National Park, Michigan seasonally alter their habitat preferences to align with beavers’ habitat preferences, a shift that might have implications for the island’s ecosystem. Read the full story by Capital News Service.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251117-wolves-beavers
Chicagoans and Northwest Indiana residents are living on land that once belonged to Potawatomi Tribes. The Potawatomi Pokagon Band claims the land as where their Tribe was born. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251117-potawatomi-lands
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is taking steps to terminate Michigan’s Au Train Dam’s operating license following years of unresolved safety violations. The move marks the most serious enforcement action against the century-old dam, which is considered one of the state’s riskiest privately-owned hydroelectric structures. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251117-dam
The city of Lorain, Ohio has invested millions in cleanup and infrastructure to prepare the former steel industry site for mixed-use development to reshape its waterfront. Read the full story by WEWS-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251117-steel-redevelopment
New rules from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy on when and how the largest animal farms dispose of manure and liquid wastes are being praised by environmentalists as a step toward improving state water quality — and blasted by farmers as more costly bureaucratic impositions that won’t better the environment. Read the full story by Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251117-farm-waste
A Canadian dive team searching for the century-old wreck may have stumbled upon a far rarer prize: a pristine shipwreck that could date back 50 years earlier than expected, offering a rare window into a little-understood era of shipbuilding. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251117-shipwreck
Most passengers on Great Lakes cruises are from the U.S. and Canada; however, the number of French- and German-speaking tourists is climbing. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251117-michigan-cruise-visitors
Ann Arbor, Mich. – The Great Lakes Commission (GLC) will award more than $1.76 million in grants to local groups to reduce the runoff of pollutants such as sediment and nutrients from entering the Great Lakes and their tributaries. Since 2016, projects funded by the Great Lakes Sediment and Nutrient Reduction Program have protected the Great Lakes through the prevention of nearly 200,000 pounds of phosphorus, 400,000 tons of sediment and millions of gallons of stormwater from leaving the landscape.
“Local communities are critical partners in improving the ecological and economic health of the Great Lakes,” Timothy Bruno, chair of the Great Lakes Commission and Great Lakes Program Coordinator at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. “The Great Lakes Commission congratulates the 2025 grantees and look forward to their contribution to a resilient Great Lakes basin.”
With a focus on phosphorus and sediment reduction, the Great Lakes Sediment and Nutrient Reduction Program provides competitive grants to local and state governments, Indigenous Nations, and nonprofit organizations to install erosion and nutrient control practices in the Great Lakes basin each year. Funded projects often include innovative and unique practices not typically funded by other federal cost-share programs.
The 2025 projects continue to promote two approaches: long-term sediment and nutrient management through engagement with the agricultural community and streambank restoration. The following grants have been awarded:
|
Project |
Grantee |
Amount |
State |
|
Mayhew Bridge – St. Joseph River Streambank Stabilization Project – Phase I |
Fort Wayne City Utilities |
$300,000 |
Indiana |
|
St. Joseph River Streambank Restoration Project |
DeKalb County Soil and Water Conservation District |
$296,200 |
Indiana |
|
Stream Restoration Project to Improve Water Quality and Reduce Nutrient and Sediment Loading on One Reach of the Knife River |
Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District |
$153,070 |
Minnesota |
|
Eastern Genesee River Phosphorus Reduction Project |
Ontario County Soil and Water Conservation District |
$200,000 |
New York |
|
Turning Fields to Filters: A Waushara County Water Quality Project |
Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance |
$237,499 |
Wisconsin |
|
Shoreline Restoration in Silver Creek |
City of Manitowoc |
$280,000 |
Wisconsin |
|
1,000 Islands Fox River Ravine Restoration Project |
Outagamie County Land Conservation Department |
$300,000 |
Wisconsin |
Since 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture – Natural Resources Conservation Service has provided funding for the Great Lakes Sediment and Nutrient Reduction Program under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI). In that time, the GLRI has provided over $4 billion to fund more than 8,000 projects across the Great Lakes region, which protect freshwater resources by restoring wetlands, preventing the spread of invasive species, and reducing sediment and nutrients.
More information about the projects is available at www.nutrientreduction.org.
The Great Lakes Commission, led by chair Timothy Bruno, Great Lakes Program Coordinator at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, is a binational government agency established in 1955 to protect the Great Lakes and the economies and ecosystems they support. Its membership includes leaders from the eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces in the Great Lakes basin. The GLC recommends policies and practices to balance the use, development, and conservation of the water resources of the Great Lakes and brings the region together to work on issues that no single community, state, province, or nation can tackle alone. Learn more at www.glc.org.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/news/glsnrp-111725
For 2025, the Alliance for the Great Lakes has once again earned three of the most trusted ratings in the nonprofit sector. These recognitions are more than symbols. They are reflections of the values that guide every decision we make to protect the waters that millions of people call home.
For another year, Charity Navigator has awarded the Alliance their Four-Star Rating. This rating is given to organizations that demonstrate strong financial health, thoughtful leadership, and a clear commitment to using donations responsibly. It affirms that we remain a “Give with Confidence” charity and continue to uphold the highest standards in accountability and results.
Transparency is part of our organizational DNA. Guidestar has again recognized this commitment with their Platinum Seal, the highest level of recognition available. It reflects the depth of information we share about who we are, what we do, and how we put donor support to work for communities across the Great Lakes region.
This recognition always means the most because it comes directly from the people who walk beside us. Volunteers. Donors. Community partners. The people who show up, year after year, to protect our shared water. In 2025, GreatNonprofits has again named the Alliance a Top-Rated Nonprofit based on the reviews and reflections of those who know our work best.
Behind every seal and star is a story. A family taking their kids to a shoreline cleanup. A donor giving what they can because they believe in clean, safe water for everyone. These ratings affirm that their contributions are protected, honored, and put to work with intention.
They also reinforce a larger truth. Protecting the Great Lakes is not a passive responsibility. It requires passion and care. It requires trust. Most importantly, it requires people who believe that the health of these waters shapes the wellbeing of every community connected to them.
The Alliance’s impact is built through partnership. Your voice. Your time. Your gifts. Your belief in a future where the Great Lakes remain vibrant, resilient, and accessible to all.
Thank you for helping us carry this work forward.
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By Eric Freedman
Tiny pieces of moss can be crime-busters, says a study examining how law enforcement agencies, forensic teams and botanists have used moss to solve murders, track missing people, calculate how long ago someone died and – in a notorious Mason County case – try to locate the body of a baby murdered by her father.
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https://greatlakesecho.org/2025/11/14/green-clues-crime-busters-turn-to-moss-to-help-solve-crimes/
This story is published in partnership with Planet Detroit.
Stanton Yards, a Detroit riverfront development, aims to be a gathering place where people find inspiration in art and reconnect with nature.
The waterfront attraction is planned as an extension of the Little Village cultural corridor developed by Library Street Collective co-founders Anthony and JJ Curis.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/11/detroit-riverfront-cultural-hub/
In Chicago, Illinois, 40 acres of lakefront property will be restored for a public park at the site of a toxic landfill that’s been operating along Lake Michigan for 40 years. Read the full story by WLS-TV – Chicago, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251114-newpark
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy says there’s not enough money to take care of Michigan’s dams — especially the ones that have put off maintenance for decades — and it’s putting people and property at risk. Read the full story by WDIV-TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251114-dams
Many of this year’s funding cuts to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s Sea Lamprey Control Program have been reversed, and the program has secured full funding for 2026. But its future remains uncertain. Read the full story by WUWM – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251114-lamprey
A northern Michigan tribe along with local environmental organizations have scored a major victory in a legal case in Elk Rapids against Burnette Foods, a nearby fruit processing operation, for allegedly polluting wetlands and Spencer Creek. Read the full story by Interlochen Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251114-elkrapids
Increased demand due to residential and industrial growth has strained the water system in North Dundas, Ontario. One long-term solution to this problem is to connect to the water system in South Dundas, which draws water from the St. Lawrence River. Read the full story by The Morrisburg Leader.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251114-dundas
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, is studying a neighborhood to see how people deal with their leaves. Leaves naturally contain phosphorus and other nutrients, which are great for growing plants and your lawn, but bad for rivers, streams, and Lake Michigan. Read the full story by WTMJ-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251114-mulch
In Michigan, the Kalamazoo Water Reclamation Plant emits over a ton of noxious hydrogen sulfide gas annually. The city is pursuing its latest odor-busting project — a $135 million sludge dryer. Read the full story by WMUK – Kalamazoo, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251114-sludge
Lake Erie’s mythical monster, Bessie, was spotted Wednesday in the Cuyahoga River in Ohio. But this Bessie looked a bit different, thanks to the artistry of a plastic pollution awareness advocate. Read the full story by Ideastream Public Media.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20251114-bessie
