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Great Lakes Daily News: 07 March 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Members of Congress work to block blending policy
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Members of Congress are pushing a bill that would stop the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from allowing sewage overflows to be released into lakes and rivers. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (3/7)


EPA to release mercury emission rules
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is set to release new rules that are expected to allow power plants to trade emissions credits to achieve mercury reductions. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (3/7)


Beach walkers toe a fine line
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The Michigan Supreme Court is set to hear arguments regarding the longstanding traditon of beachwalking and whether the public has a right of access to the Great Lakes shore. Source: Detroit Free Press (3/7)


The Great Lakes Aquarium wants an on-going subsidy
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The operators of Duluth's Great Lakes Aquarium say it will need a yearly infusion of cash from the city while they work to boost attendance. Source: Minnesota Public Radio (3/7)


Carp eggs might hitch ride past fence, enter Lake Michigan
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The new electric barrier designed to keep Asian carp out of Lake Michigan won't prevent their eggs from hitching a ride in the ballast tanks of barges on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Source: Chicago Sun-Times (3/6)


New 'T-foil' stabilizers to steady ferry crossing
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Passengers on Lake Michigan's high-speed ferry should have a smoother ride this summer, thanks to the installation of computer-controlled stablizers. Source: Muskegon Chronicle (3/6)


Vanishing forest
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With little fanfare or even public notice, chunks of Minnesota's north woods are being divided up, sold off and developed. Source: Duluth News Tribune (3/6)


Debate rages over wind energy farms
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The battle over wind energy in Wisconsin's Manitowoc County has commenced, with opponents claiming wind farms risk public safety and have potentially adverse effects on property values and aesthetics. Source: Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter (3/6)


Underwater 1812 graveyard at risk as groups wrangle over warships
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Two well-preserved U.S. warships lying at the bottom of Lake Ontario are at the mercy of looters, ravaging mussels and natural degeneration as the federal government, the city of Hamilton and private organizations wrangle over what to do with them. Source: The Globe and Mail (3/5)


Bush plan to renew tolls irks port, others
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President Bush's plan to renew U.S. tolls on ships using the St. Lawrence Seaway has drawn the ire of Great Lakes port officials. Source: The Toledo Blade (3/5)


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