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Great Lakes News: 30 April 2004
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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EPA announces beach grants
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Thirty-five coastal states and territories, including all eight Great Lakes
states, are eligible to apply for U.S. EPA beach management grants. Source:
The Toledo Blade (4/30)


Southeast Michigan rates high for air pollutant
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Southeast Michigan could take another hit this year when the Environmental
Protection Agency declares several counties in violation of limits for fine
particle pollution -- smog's equally wicked stepsister. Source: Detroit Free
Press (4/30)


New Coast Guard ship patrols the Great Lakes
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Local officials, Coast Guard officers and hundreds of spectators are
expected to attend the commissioning ceremony of the cutter Hollyhock today
at the Seaway Terminal in Port Huron, Mich. Source: The Detroit News (4/30)


U.S. EPA delays mercury utility rule until March 2005
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The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday delayed finalizing rules to
reduce harmful mercury emissions from aging power plants until March 2005 to
consider whether stricter rules are needed. Source: Environmental News
Network (4/30)


Zoo working to restore rare piping plover population
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If you're lucky, quiet and very, very still, you might spot or hear one of
the few breeding pairs of Great Lakes piping plovers as they pass over
Wisconsin in the next couple of weeks during their annual summer migration.
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (4/30)


COMMENTARY: Volunteers can protect sturgeon on spawning run
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A group called Sturgeon For Tomorrow is looking for volunteers in the next
six weeks to help Michigan DNR conservation officers maintain a 24-hour
watch over places where the biggest fish in Michigan return to lay their
eggs. Source: Detroit Free Press (4/30)


Farmers fuming at DEQ
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Some Michigan farmers who own and manage large concentrated animal feeding
operations are angry and frustrated at new state rules that will regulate
what happens to the animal waste. Source: The Bay City Times (4/29)


Battle in our back yards
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Wisconsin is under invasion - by armies of non-native plants, aquatic
species, insects and diseases. Source: Madison Capital Times (4/29)


Coast Guard icebreaker with long history in Charlevoix to be decommissioned
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A bit of Michigan's maritime history will come to permanent rest next month,
when the Coast Guard buoy tender Sundew is decommissioned on May 27 and
converted into a maritime museum in Duluth, Minn. Source: Duluth News
Tribune (4/29)

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