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Great Lakes Daily News: 14 March 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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New EPA administrator to prioritize lakes cleanup?
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Midwest officials say they hope the new administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will continue to push for better coordination of Great Lakes cleanup. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (3/14)


EPA needs to improve air toxin monitoring
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The inspector general for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the agency needs to improve its air toxin monitoring system. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (3/14)


Great Lakes cruisers sail into unique niche
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Great Lakes cruising has staged something of a comeback in recent years, with the number of cruise passengers increasing 20 times over the past decade. Source: Business First of Buffalo (3/14)


Critics call new rule for mercury a step back
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The Bush administration is to finalize a national rule for mercury emissions that the American Lung Association and almost every major environmental group says is a weakening of the federal Clean Air Act of 1970. Source: The Toledo Blade (3/14)


Warnings to help swimmers assess risk of rip currents
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This summer, the National Weather Service will, for the first time, issue advisories for Great Lakes rip currents, the sometimes deadly pull of water away from shore. Source: Duluth News Tribune (3/13)


EPA missed West Bay spill
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency missed a large plume of highly contaminated groundwater flowing into Grand Traverse Bay when it decided not to clean up a commercial dry-cleaning operation in 1992. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (3/13)


Toronto's waterfront design panel aims not to repeat past
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The new design watchdog appointed by the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corp. has vowed that inspiring architecture, eco-friendly buildings and leading-edge ideas must be the new gold standard for city's waterfront. Source: The Globe and Mail (3/12)


MDEQ doesn't want general permits for beach grooming
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The director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, has decided not to issue general permits for beach grooming where low water levels have exposed vegetation, saying the process would harm the environment. Source: The Bay City Times (3/12)


Wetlands, fish, people benefit from rise in Great Lakes' levels
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Rising water levels in the Great Lakes during the past year not only have delighted property owners, who prefer views of waves over weeds, but the swelling bodies also are feeding commerce and a variety of plants and animals that call the lakes home. Source: Booth Newspapers (3/11)


Created wetlands filter chemicals well
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Researchers studying a man-made wetland in Ohio found it filtered and cleaned water as well as or better than a natural marsh. Source: The Washington Times (3/10)


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