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Great Lakes Daily News: 20 October 2003
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New contaminants in the lakes?
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The U.S. EPA and Canada are launching studies to look at emerging
contaminants, a new class of chemicals that is being found in water and fish
of the Great Lakes. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (10/20)


Wisconsin board to rule on smelt fishing this week
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The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board is scheduled to decide this week
whether to forego a legislative request to let commercial smelt fishing
continue on Green Bay and instead keep a proposed five-year ban. Source:
Green Bay Press-Gazette (10/20)


COMMENTARY: Great Lakes need protection from foreign ship water, species
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By stopping the introduction of invasive species through ballast water
tanks, one of the greatest threats to the U.S. waters and ecosystems can be
greatly reduced. Source: Detroit Free Press (10/20)


EDITORIAL: Cleaner rivers in Minnesota
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Last week Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said "yes" to a major new initiative,
a conservation proposal for three of Minnesota's great rivers. Source:
Minneapolis Star Tribune (10/20)


Transportation or trees? A highway runs through it.
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Growing cities mean more suburbs, more cars and, according to traditional
thinking, the need for more roads. But some people think new roads are not a
solution, but part of the problem. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium
(10/20)


CN Rail pays $500M for U.S. railways
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Beefing up its cross-border steel transport services, Canadian National
Railway Co. says it will buy two small U.S. railways and a fleet of vessels
owned by Great Lakes Transportation LLC. Source: The Toronto Star (10/20)


Tapping into a resource
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Believing that water can be an economic tonic, a group call HOhio is trying
to transform northeast Ohio from a rust belt region to a water-based mecca.
Source: The Cleveland Plain Dealer (10/19)


COMMENTARY: American Indians have been stewards of Wisconsin lands for
centuries
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While most of the news about Wisconsin's American Indians focuses on
gambling and casinos, they have been and continue to be especially good
stewards of the land and its resources. Source: The Shawano Leader (10/19)


EPA won't regulate sludge dioxins
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The Environmental Protection Agency will let farmers and others use sewage
sludge as fertilizer without concern for the amount of dioxins, a class of
organic chemicals that the agency's studies have shown pose a possible
cancer risk in humans. Source: Duluth News Tribune (10/18)


Whiskey Island plan unveiled
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A public wharf, bike rentals, an ecological center and a lookout tower are
some of the features Cuyahoga County would like to plant on Whiskey Island,
with Cleveland's help. Source: The Cleveland Plain Dealer (10/18)


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