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Great Lakes Daily News: 18 November 2003
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Coal-plant proposal faces new challenge
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A group of environmentalists filed an appeal Monday to try to reverse the
permit issued for a coal-fired power plant in Elwood, Ill., arguing that the
state did not call for adequate pollution control measures. Source: Chicago
Tribune (11/18)


Smallmouth bass swimming ahead
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The Ohio state legislature seems ready to replace the walleye with the
smallmouth bass as the official state fish, after years of throwing such
bills back in the lake. Source: The Morning Journal (11/18)


14 states file suit in attempt to block E.P.A. rules
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New York, Illinois and Wisconsin were among 14 states that filed papers in
federal court Monday in an effort to stop the Environmental Protection
Agency from introducing a new rule that the states say will seriously weaken
the provisions of the Clean Air Act. Source: The New York Times (11/17)


Historic lighthouse lives on
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The Selkirk lighthouse on Lake Ontario is not very well known as a vacation
spot. But some people find that once they visit they keep coming back.
Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (11/17)


Michigan attempts to control urban sprawl
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Land-use decisions have traditionally been local, but the state of Michigan
is planning to play a bigger role in an effort to concentrate development in
urban areas and stem sprawl. Source: The Jackson Citizen Patriot (11/16)


Mapping the way for ships
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The Saginaw River shipping channel is filling in with silt, but preparations
are underway for a long-awaited dredging of the channel, which hasn't been
maintained to its authorized depth for 20 years. Source: The Bay City Times
(11/16)


'Ontario's West Coast' permanently polluted
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Health officials have declared a string of Lake Huron beaches permanently
unsafe because of E. coli bacteria, making this the first new pollution "hot
spot" on Canada's side of the Great Lakes in nearly 20 years. Source: The
Ottawa Citizen (11/15)


As `public good' changes meaning, eminent domain battles heat up
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Homeowners in a graying, blue-collar suburb that hugs Lake Erie on the west
end of Cleveland are fighting a proposal that would use the government's
power of eminent domain to obtain their property for private development.
Source: The Macon Telegraph (11/14)


Lake levels vary over the years
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Lake Michigan water levels have falled by more than four feet since 1997,
their fastest drop on record, and could approach an all-time low this
winter. Source: WDNU-TV (11/14)


Lake trout limits may be adjusted
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources may relax lake trout
regulations for Munising Bay early next year, once sportfishing catch quotas
can be determined from computer models. Source: The Munising Mining Journal
(11/13)


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