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 Great Lakes Daily News: 15 July 2004
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Activists want tighter law on mercury
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Members of the Mercury-Free Minnesota Campaign came to Duluth on Wednesday
to call for greater reductions of the toxic element. Source: Duluth News
Tribune (7/15)


Inspections to continue in Sarnia
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Inspections of petrochemical plants in Sarnia's Chemical Valley will
continue for the next several months as the province works to clean up the
area near the St. Clair River, Environment Minister Leona Dombrowsky said
yesterday. Source: The London Free Press (7/15)


States want regulations on ballast
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Michigan and five other Great Lakes states will ask a federal court today to
force the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate biological invaders
dumped in the lakes by oceangoing ships. Source: Detroit Free Press (7/15)


Council drops anchor on lakefront plan
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Mayor Jane Campbell's plan to transform Cleveland's lakefront sprang a leak
Wednesday. Source: The Plain Dealer (7/15)


Officials hope quicker water tests improve beach closures
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In the future, the results of tests to determine if the water at Illinois
beaches contains unsafe levels of E. coli bacteria may take 24 minutes
instead of 24 hours to obtain. Source: Glencoe News (7/15)


Opponents appeal Oregon coke plant permit
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Opposition to a state-approved construction permit for the $350 million FDS
Coke Plant proposed for Oregon has made strange bedfellows of U.S. Coking
Group and The Sierra Club. Source: The Toledo Blade (7/15)


Reeling in new tourists
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Cash-strapped upstate localities should look at water resources as a way of
boosting revenue. Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (7/15)


Crowds jam sewage overflow meeting
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A town meeting on Grand Rapids sewage overflow highlighted the need for
community consciousness and personal responsibility. Source: The Holland
Sentinel (7/15)


It's been a great year for chinook fishing
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The 2004 hunt for the "Kings" of Lake Michigan is off to what many believe
could be a record-shattering season, perhaps even enough to top the 1987
estimate of more than 396,000 chinooks reeled in. Source: Green Bay
Press-Gazette (7/15)


Illinois EPA may revise watershed protections
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Rather than fighting pollution on a pipe-by-pipe or discharge-by-discharge
basis, a 30-member Basinwide Management Advisory Group recommends addressing
entire watersheds, the regions drained by a river or stream. Source:
Chicago Tribune (7/14)


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