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Great Lakes News: 03 June 2004
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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EPA faces lawsuit over emissions
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Environmental and health groups said Wednesday they will sue the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency over emissions from four coal-fired power
plants in the Chicago area. Source: Chicago Sun-Times (6/3)


Indian Act is racist: Fontaine
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The federal Indian Act is an "archaic, discriminatory and racist" piece of
legislation, Phil Fontaine said yesterday in a lengthy, unscripted address
before the Anishinabek Grand Council Assembly. Source: The Globe and Mail
(6/3)


Oregon coke plant debate simmers
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Fifteen environmental groups from Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York,
and Ontario have urged the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to deny U.S.
Coking Group LLC its permit to construct the facility. Source: The Toledo
Blade (6/3)


A growing thirst for groundwater
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Where water demand outpaces supply, times warrant a fresh look at a resource
considered unfathomable and unending. Source: Wisconsin Natural Resources
Magazine (6/3)


Exotic species threatening native Lake Erie fish
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Fisheries biologists call them exotics, invasive species and non-native
species, but by any name, they're big trouble for America's freshwater
rivers and lakes. Source: The Plain Dealer (6/3)


Wisconsin seeks volunteers' hair for mercury study
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A state agency is seeking 2,000 volunteers for a study that will examine the
levels of mercury in people, particularly those who often eat fish. Source:
Duluth News Tribune (6/3)


Experts say flooding leaves perfect conditions for mosquitoes
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Many rains that flooded rivers, basements and shallow areas across northern
Illinois contain generations of floodwater mosquito larvae that only need a
spell of warm weather to mature and begin buzzing around, experts say.
Source: The Northwest Indiana Times (6/3)


Invasive plant is in Burt Lake
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An invasive exotic plant species is threatening more than one regional lake,
and area preservationists are taking note. Source: Cheboygan Daily Tribune
(6/3)


DNR set to take action against MMSD
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State regulators today are expected to set into motion punishment against
the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District for its enormous dumping of raw
sewage in May. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (6/2)


Nuclear plant bans draw anglers' ire
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Ever since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the water and shore
around the Kewaunee and Point Beach nuclear power plants have been off
limits to anglers and boaters. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (6/2)

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