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Great Lakes News: 12 March 2004
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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EDITORIAL: Don't ease up on sewage treatment
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking an unwise gamble with
public health by proposing to give its blessing to a controversial sewage
treatment method. Source: The Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette (3/12)


Judge orders ferry line, Marblehead officials to seek agreement
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A judge has ordered the Kelleys Island ferry line and Marblehead village
officials to meet early next week and try to reach a compromise that will
restore ferry service to the island of nearly 400 year-round residents.
Source: The Plain Dealer (3/12)


A wasteland that could be a wonderland
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Though frustration about the slow pace of progress is mounting both inside
and outside Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corp., the corporation's
proposed $17-billion overhaul of Toronto's dilapidated industrial shoreline
moved a step closer to reality this week. Source: The Globe and Mail (3/12)


Report criticizes environmental record in Pennsylvania
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The Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy, a
group composed of academics and environmental policy makers, will release a
report today that is critical of the state's environmental and social
efforts. Source: Erie Times-News (3/12)


Development plans proposed for Detroit riverfront
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A 1.5-mile stretch of the Detroit River, running from Joe Louis Arena to the
Ambassador Bridge, would include a riverside park, two marinas, condominiums
and retail stores, according to a proposed development plan for the area.
Source: Detroit Free Press (3/12)


New CWD findings worry hunters
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A new test that found preliminary indicators of chronic wasting disease in
wild deer in more than a dozen additional Wisconsin counties could lead to a
new wave of fear about the disease among hunters. Source: Green Bay
Press-Gazette (3/12)


Michigan pollution inspections could halt
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Republican legislators want to write the rules that Michigan uses to enforce
water-pollution laws, saying the state agency that has been doing it is
trampling on property owner rights. Source: Detroit Free Press (3/12)


EDITORIAL: Not-so-Superfund
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The Superfund, once a self-replenishing pot of $4 billion, went bankrupt
last fall, leaving taxpayers with the bill for cleaning up America's
abandoned, poisoned lands. Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/12)


Canada, Ontario plan improvements to Windsor-Detroit crossing
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The federal and Ontario governments announced a $230-million plan Thursday
to improve the flow of traffic over the Canada-United States border at
Windsor-Detroit. Source: Detroit Free Press (3/11)


Lake Michigan community divided over proposed electric plant
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The plant, which would be the state's first new coal-fired power plant to
open since 1990, would occupy an abandoned industrial site on Manistee Lake,
an inland waterway linked to Lake Michigan by a river that flows through
downtown. Source: The Associated Press (3/11)

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