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GLIN NEWS: 20 October 2004

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Great Lakes Daily News: 20 October 2004
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Wisconsin sues power firm over Lake Superior cleanup costs
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The Wisconsin Department of Justice has sued Northern States Power Company to recover $1.4 million in investigation costs related to contamination in Lake Superior and on the lakefront next to the company's property in Ashland. Source: The Appleton Post-Crescent (10/20)


MP wants to ban water exports
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A Member of Parliament has introduced a private member's bill to ban the export of Great Lakes water outside the Great Lakes basin, claiming that piping water out of the Great Lakes would threaten Canada's water supply and damage the lakes' delicate ecosystems. Source: The Toronto Star (10/20)


Paying a little more would cut mercury a lot
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According to the National Wildlife Federation, it would cost the average residential customer living in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania or North Dakota only 69 cents more per month on their electric bill to produce a 90 percent reduction in airborne mercury from coal-fired power plants. Source: Chicago Sun-Times (10/20)


New Canadian regulations trigger jump in environmental spending
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Companies responding to new regulations boosted environmental spending between 2000 and 2002, says Statistics Canada. Source: The Globe and Mail (10/20)


Relief in Chicago: No more 'Frankenfish'
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An anxious search Tuesday of a Chicago harbor failed to turned up any northern snakeheads, a voracious alien fish that can devastate freshwater ecosystems by gobbling up food and native fish. Source: Booth Newspapers (10/19)


U.S. cleanup starts on Detroit River's "Black Lagoon'
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Known as the Black Lagoon, a heavily contaminated 2-mile stretch of the Detroit River is getting a multimillion-dollar federally funded cleanup designed to turn a toxic eyesore into a natural resource. Source: Detroit Free Press (10/19)


Michigan seeks to ban 'engineered' fish
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A series of bills have been proposed to prohibit non-native or bioengineered aquatic animals and plants from being sold in Michigan. Source: South Bend Tribune (10/19)


Officials to focus on chemical spills
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Environmental leaders from Michigan and Ontario will meet this week to continue discussing ways to keep toxic chemicals out of the St. Clair River, including fines for spills. Source: The Port Huron Times-Herald (10/17)


Steel heritage museum could rise in industrial valley
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The movers behind a series of projects percolating in the Cuyahoga River's industrial valley met this week to brainstorm on one more -- a world-class steel heritage museum. Source: The Plain Dealer (10/16)


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