By Frank Jossi
This story was first published on the Energy News Network and was republished here with permission
St. Paul last week joined a growing list of Minnesota cities passing climate resolutions aimed at adding urgency to state and local climate actions.
By Frank Jossi
This story was first published on the Energy News Network and was republished here with permission
St. Paul last week joined a growing list of Minnesota cities passing climate resolutions aimed at adding urgency to state and local climate actions.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/02/minnesota-cities-climate-resolutions/
Ann Arbor, Mich. – The Great Lakes Commission (GLC) today launched a new website that allows Great Lakes decision-makers to track the region’s progress to reduce harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie and stop aquatic invasive species.
The new site, www.blueaccounting.org, tracks efforts under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement to reduce the runoff of phosphorus from priority watersheds to Lake Erie, as well as programs and policies that stop species introduction, detect new species, and control harmful invasive species across the region.
The new site follows years of GLC collaboration with work groups that include representatives of state, provincial and federal governments, as well as the academic, nonprofit and private sectors. The work groups identify available data on specific issues, share information about current efforts, and help to translate those pieces into the information the region’s leaders need when making decisions that impact Great Lakes restoration and protection.
“Connecting scientists and policy experts across sectors is one of the key values this new site is bringing to the region,” said GLC Chair Todd L. Ambs of Wisconsin. “It’s our goal to use data to answer the critical question of how we are doing when it comes to protecting and restoring our Great Lakes.”
“This website provides us an opportunity to showcase our regional success stories, and make the case for continued, strategic investments in the Great Lakes,” said GLC Executive Director Erika S. Jensen. “We believe this work, as it grows and evolves, will set new standards for regional collaboration and stewardship. Restoring and protecting the Great Lakes is a team effort, and we appreciate the support of our commissioners, work groups, and partners in launching this new website.”
Additional work is underway to track efforts to protect the region’s drinking water, enhance maritime transportation, and build climate resiliency. Related data products and tools developed on these topics during an earlier phase of Blue Accounting, remain available in the website’s data portal.
Blue Accounting has received generous support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation. The Nature Conservancy and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also contributed significant resources and expertise to Blue Accounting’s development.
The Great Lakes Commission, led by chair Todd L. Ambs, deputy secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (retired), 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/ba-020122
From lead pipes to PFAS, drinking water contamination is a major issue plaguing cities and towns all around the Great Lakes. Cleaning up contaminants and providing safe water to everyone is an ongoing public health struggle.
Keep up with drinking water-related developments in the Great Lakes area.
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Illinois:
Legislators in Illinois are looking favorably upon a bill that may improve water quality for a large portion of the nation.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/02/water-quality-bill-mine-wetland/
The Great Lakes contain 95% of all the fresh surface water in the United States, and Wisconsin is fortunate that two of those lakes make up its northern and eastern borders—1,000 miles in all and supporting 105 Great Lakes communities.
Stewardship of the lakes is critical not just for those 105 communities, but for the entire state, which benefits from lakes Michigan and Superior culturally, recreationally and economically. Tuesday, Wisconsin Sea Grant announced 12 new two-year research projects worth $2.8 million that build Great Lakes understanding, leading to science-based management and policy decisions.
“We often say the Great Lakes are a gift from the glaciers,” said Sea Grant Director Jim Hurley. “This gift is a valuable one—a recent study found 1.3 million jobs are tied to the lakes, with $82 billion in annual wages. Just as the lakes fuel our economy, they also enrich our quality of life. That’s why we are pleased that these projects officially kick off today with funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.”
Research will be conducted on four University of Wisconsin System campuses and will, for example, deepen our understanding of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, harmful algal blooms and marine debris, three timely water-quality concerns.
In all, nearly 75 researchers, staff and students will be engaged in this work on the University of Wisconsin System campuses of Madison, Milwaukee, Platteville and Stevens Point. Additionally, the maritime archaeology program at the Wisconsin Historical Society will be supported for Lake Michigan shipwreck exploration.
Water samples laden with PFAS in the Christy Remucal lab at UW-Madison. Photo: Bonnie Willison
“This year, Wisconsin Sea Grant is celebrating its 50-year anniversary. We have a long history of supporting not just research, but the up-and-coming researchers across the state who want to meet Great Lakes challenges and opportunities. More than half of the projects announced Tuesday will be led by investigators who are first-time Sea Grant funding recipients,” Hurley said.
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In the Great Lakes region there are community fridges in such major cities as Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, Cleveland and Toronto. Community fridges are working fridges, usually connected to an organization, that provide free food to passersby. The concept is to take what you need and bring what you can.
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By Michael Phillis, Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Angela Stamps won’t drink water from her faucet, showers less and no longer takes the baths she once found relaxing. She doesn’t cook with tap water and sometimes skips rinsing her produce.
Even though the amount of lead in Flint, Michigan’s tap water has been well below a key state threshold for several years, she hasn’t been able to stop worrying since going through the trauma of the city’s lead crisis.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/01/us-pushes-better-tap-water/
By Tim Lydon, The Revelator
This story originally appeared in The Revelator and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
In July 2021 federal agents in New Orleans abruptly ordered the 600-foot cargo ship Pan Jasmine to leave U.S.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/01/cargo-invasive-species/
Between Wisconsin and Minnesota runs the St. Louis River. Along the river, a widening exists between the Fond du Lac neighborhood and the Duluth Harbor; here lies Spirit Lake. At the center of Spirit Lake is Spirit Island, a place rich in cultural history and a former home to the Ojibwe people.
Martin Defoe (left) and Jeff Savage. Image credit: National Lake Superior Estuarine Research Reserve
This past Jan. 12, Wisconsin Sea Grant and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve’s River Talk featured Jeff Savage, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Cultural Center and Veteran’s Museum director, and Marvin Defoe, an elder with the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. They shared their memories and stories of Spirit Island.
Savage said that thousands of years ago, the migration of the Anishinaabe to continental America began with the journey through the Bering Strait, down to the Eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. As they traveled east, they met a variety of people who were already settled, and faced bouts of both conflict and kindness along the way. Eventually, the Anishinaabe made their way to the Eastern Coast of America, or rather, in the words of Savage, “the land where the sun comes up.” They spread along the coast creating homes and prospering in peace.
“While there, there were seven prophets,” said Savage, “They call these prophets the Seven Fires. The first prophet came and told the people all the knowledge to create a healthy and everlasting life.”
The second prophet warned that the Anishinaabe people would forget this knowledge as time went by, but eventually, a young boy would be born and help the tribes remember what was forgotten.
“The third prophet came and told them that there was a chosen ground in the west and that they must move their families to where the food grows on the water,” said Savage. The Anishinaabe people were also told that they would find a path to their chosen ground.
Several generations of traveling ensued due to the Seven Fires Prophecy. The journey took the Anishinaabe through many places, including modern-day Montreal, New York and Detroit, searching for an island shaped like a turtle.
The tribe was split up in this process, but eventually, Anishinaabe people from the north and south sides of Lake Superior were reunited. “We knew that we were the same people because we still had the same songs,” Savage said.
And so, they finally came across Spirit Island, the island that resembled a turtle’s back sticking out of the water and home to a cornucopia of food, including wild rice, a food that “grows on the water.”
Spirit Island. Image credit: David Bowman
The long history and deep-rooted traditions of the Anishinaabe carry on today as elders pass down the story of Spirit Island to younger generations. Defoe recalled watching his family harvest wild rice as a young boy and reminisced about oral traditions that he learned as a child.
“We told stories, we talked. Just like what we’re doing here, telling stories,” said Defoe.
Despite these long-standing traditions, it is important to note that things have changed regarding the lives of the Anishinaabe. Defoe noted that he has viewed the decline of wild rice crops since his childhood. These declines are concerning because it is possible that one day no one will have access to these resources. Defoe gave some insight into an Anishinaabe belief that “there was a time that all people–I don’t care what race they were–all people had a connection to the Earth.”
To watch a video of this presentation, visit the Lake Superior Estuarine Research Reserve’s YouTube site.
Other River Talks will be held Feb. 9, March 8, April 13 and May 11, 2022. For more information, visit the River Talks page: go.wisc.edu/4uz720.
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Keep up with energy-related developments in the Great Lakes area with Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
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Illinois:
Aiming to increase diversity in wind and solar jobs, a proposed measure in the Illinois General Assembly would require more transparent reporting on the level of participation of minority-owned businesses in clean energy jobs.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/01/energy-news-roundup-nuclear-bill-natural-gas/
A collection of more than 150 Great Lakes shipping models are now in display at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum in Detroit, Michigan through May 8. Read the full story by WJBK- TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-ships
Wisconsin Sea Grant, in partnership with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, is hosting an online book club designed to give parents and teachers tools to introduce young readers to Ojibwe culture and environmental stewardship. Read and hear the full story by WXPR – Rhinelander, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-education
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) projects the lake to be 52.3% covered by ice at its peak, with a long-term average of 62.3%. Lake Superior ice cover was roughly 12% late last week, compared to a long-term average of 20%. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-superior
The Medina County Park District is expanding the Black River Nature Preserve in the Lodi, Ohio area. Read the full story by the Akron Beacon Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-restoration
The International Lake Ontario- St. Lawrence River Board has confirmed that outflows on Lake Ontario in January were found to be the fourth highest on record since 1990. This is following records set in 2020, 2021 and 1987. Read the full story by WWTI- TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-ontario
Cruise ships will visit Muskegon, Michigan again this summer, after stops were canceled for two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-cruise-ships
There’s a new proposal gaining support in Washington D.C. for a potential multi-billion-dollar investment that would bring U.S. naval facilities to Lorain and Lordstown, Ohio. Read the full story by WJW – TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-naval-ships
Mayor Bill Mauro is making a case for Thunder Bay, Ontario to host a new Canadian federal agency designed to put greater focus on protecting and managing Canada’s water resources. Read and listen to the full story by the Thunder Bay News Watch.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-thunder-bay
Water scarcity is occurring in some of the United States’ biggest freshwater reserves, according to a new study. Not only is the crisis evident in the U.S. but also to other parts of the world. Read the full story by Nature World News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-water-shortage
A bill before the Michigan Legislature would allocate $2.4 billion dollars in federal funds for repairs to the state’s aging water infrastructure. Read the full story by 95.3 MNC Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-infrastructure
The annual Birds on the Niagara (BON22) festival will celebrate migrating birds of the area from February 10th – February 13th in Buffalo, New York. Read the full story by Buffalo Rising.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220131-bird-festival
In November 2020, shortly after President Joe Biden was elected, Great Lakes Now talked with University of Detroit Mercy associate professor Nick Schroeck about the opportunities and challenges facing the president-elect.
Schroeck is an environmental law attorney and urban policy expert who has a background in transboundary legal issues between the U.S.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/01/bidens-first-year/
THIS WEEK: Event Focus–Project Grants Webinar; All About Water Symposium; Water Watchers & Wellness Registration Open; Sand Sculptures Form on Lake Michigan Shore
Freshwater Future has been fortunate to provide Grant Programs for grassroots community organizations for over 26 years. Learn more about our Grants Program on Tuesday, February 22nd– noon (EST). To register online, please click HERE. To register by email or phone, please contact laurie@freshwaterfuture.org, (231)348-8200. Also, visit the map on our website to learn more about our Grant Programs funding initiatives and their impact on past projects.
Freshwater Future and All About Water invite you to join experts, peer groups and municipal officials to learn about federal dollars coming to states for water infrastructure projects. By participating you will gain valuable information about how your municipality can benefit from available federal funding to help replace lead lines, update water and wastewater treatment plants, utilize green infrastructure to prevent or reduce flooding, and more. REGISTER NOW! Thursday, February 17th, 9:30 am – noon EST.
2022’s first Water Watchers & Wellness forum was a wonderful turn out! The session included meditative self-care and a discussion on year-end financial management for nonprofits and community-based organizations. It’s still not too late to join this monthly seminar forum scheduled on the 4th Thursday of every month. The next session will be February 24th, 2022, from 11:30am-1pm ET. Register today!
Strong icy winds on the southern Lake Michigan shoreline whipped wet sand into formations reminiscent of Star Wars. Check out these cool photos of these short-lived sand sculptures.
Blog – Freshwater Future
https://freshwaterfuture.org/freshwater-weekly/freshwater-future-weekly-january-28-2022/
As local governments wrestle with the question of how to spend their share of American Rescue Plan Act money from Washington, some are earmarking it to improve broadband access and affordability for their residents.
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Three million dollars in funding will be invested to protect Lake Michigan and its shoreline from climate change and invasive species. The U.S. federal government is investing $1.5 million in funding to protect Lake Michigan and the City of Chicago is matching it. Read the full story by WGN-TV – Chicago, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-lake-michigan-investment
As the Great Lakes experience more harmful algal blooms due to climate change, real time monitoring of drinking water for toxins is becoming increasingly urgent. That’s why the Great Lakes Water Authority wants to establish a baseline for water quality monitoring. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-monitoring
As the Great Lakes experience more harmful algal blooms due to climate change, real time monitoring of drinking water for toxins is becoming increasingly urgent. That’s why the Great Lakes Water Authority wants to establish a baseline for water quality monitoring. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-monitoring
The commercial fishing quota for lake whitefish in southern Green Bay will increase by 57%, according to a final rule approved Wednesday by the Natural Resources Board. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-whitefish
A new Illinois House bill mandating that life rings be installed along the lakefront and known as the Lake Michigan Rescue Equipment Act just passed through the House Human Services Committee. The bill will soon go to the full state House floor for a vote. Read the full story by WBBM-TV – Chicago, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-illinois-bill
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell visited the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens to discuss the impacts of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative following the $1 billion in federal infrastructure funding the initiative received last year. Read the full story by The Michigan Daily.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-infrastructure-bill
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell visited the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens to discuss the impacts of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative following the $1 billion in federal infrastructure funding the initiative received last year. Read the full story by The Michigan Daily.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-infrastructure-bill
The Four Lakes Task Force updated mid-Michigan residents on future plans for the Sanford and Edenville dams. Read the full story by the Midland Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-dam
The Four Lakes Task Force updated mid-Michigan residents on future plans for the Sanford and Edenville dams. Read the full story by the Midland Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-dam
Two weeks of arctic weather yielded surges in ice production on the Great Lakes, putting ice coverage in line with historical norms. Read the full story by The Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-ice-expands
The New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting issued a siting permit for a 33-turbine wind energy facility to be located near a wildlife management area close to Lake Ontario. However, this is raising concerns for the safety of migratory birds. Read the full story by the Poughkeepsie Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-wind-turbine
Detroit’s aging infrastructure is causing water to seep through cracks and the freezing temperatures are making matters worse. The City of Detroit Water and Sewerage department is dispatching crews around the clock to repair water main breaks. Read the full story by WWJ-TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-water-main-breaks
Ice balls developed this week at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northwest Michigan after multiple consecutive days of sub-freezing air temperatures combined with wind coming off the water. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220128-ice-balls
By Rachel Duckett As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden made a series of energy-related promises, including net-zero emissions by 2050 and the launch of “a national effort aimed at creating the jobs we need to build a modern, sustainable infrastructure now and deliver an equitable clean energy future.” Last August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]
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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service
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Current activities at the Spirit Lake Great Lakes Legacy Act cleanup site. Image credit: U. S, Environmental Protection Agency
The next River Talk will take place at 7 p.m., Wednesday, February 9, via Zoom. Mark Loomis, with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Great Lakes National Program Office, will present, “Update on the Spirit Lake Great Lakes Legacy Act Project.”
The EPA continues work at the Spirit Lake site under the Great Lakes Legacy Act. Loomis will provide technical updates on progress to-date and the plan for remediating the Spirit Lake project area.
Here is the Zoom link and info:
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The event will last an hour and will include time for comments and questions. The talk will be recorded and posted afterward on the Reserve’s Facebook page and YouTube. A summary will also be posted on Wisconsin Sea Grant’s blog.
Remaining River Talks will be held March 8, April 13 and May 11, 2022. For more information, visit the River Talks page: go.wisc.edu/4uz720.
The River Talks are sponsored by The Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Wisconsin Sea Grant Program.
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As the Great Lakes experience more harmful algal blooms due to climate change, real time monitoring of drinking water for toxins is becoming increasingly urgent.
Warm water temperatures, increased rainfall and fertilizer run-off from farm fields are providing fuel for blooms that can taint water.
This spring, a floating sensor for monitoring drinking water drawn from the Detroit River will begin giving real-time data on potentially toxic blue-green algae, along with other water quality data such as temperature, pH and dissolved oxygen.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/01/detroit-river-algal-bloom-threat/
103 years after National Geographic published its article on berries, Michigan is witnessing some changes due to climate change and invasive species.
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http://greatlakesecho.org/2022/01/27/threats-to-the-native-berries-amongst-us/
Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service
https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=WI1263DD7CB688.SpecialWeatherStatement.1263DD7D7910WI.GRBSPSGRB.3b77a733acfe35fc01f412b80021d336
The Michigan Department of Environmental, Great Lakes and Energy released the draft MI Healthy Climate Plan as an outline of how the state plans to reach Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s goal of getting the state carbon neutral by 2050. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-michigan-climate
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy will be performing a phase 1 environmental assessment at a potential redevelopment site in Alma. The environmental assessment will determine what, if any, types of contaminants are on the site and whether or not remediation will be required before the parcel can be reused. Read the full story by the Morning Sun.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-egle-assessment
Jan. 26, 1837, serves as the day Michigan officially became the 26th state. The Great Lakes State has much to offer, but we don’t need to tell you that. To celebrate 185 years, check out some of these Detroit News’ Michigan Marvels. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-marvels
Rep. Chris Jacobs is leading a bipartisan effort to boost funding for a new federal effort to combat plastic pollution in the Great Lakes and other waterways around the world. Read the full story by The Buffalo News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-plastic
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has completed its annual Great Lakes survey season, conducted on all of our Great Lakes waters from April to November 2021. The data from these surveys directly informs fisheries management decisions and future actions on Great Lakes waters. Read the full story by the Iosco County News-Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-fisheries
A new report is recommending ways to protect an artesian aquifer in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, following a controversial proposal, that’s now being fought in court, to bottle and sell water from an artesian well in a Lake Superior watershed. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-report
A new bill in Congress would require the U.S. Coast Guard to train and prepare for oil spills on the St. Lawrence River. The bill seeks to extend the Coast Guard’s required readiness levels for the Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence River and some Great Lakes tributaries. Read the full story by North Country Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-bill
Researchers with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission say their surveys have found that many more endangered species could be affected by a proposed pipeline in Wisconsin than the oil company found in its own surveys. Read the full story by the Green Bay Press Gazette.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-oil
