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

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Insecticides offer hope for control of ash borer
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At a public forum at Monroe County Community College last night, research presented by Michigan State University gave a glimmer of hope for a chemical treatment that could stop the emerald ash borer carnage, or at least buy North America time to seek a cure. Source: The Toledo Blade (4/7)


Department of Agriculture closer to creation
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A ruling by the Indiana State Senate will transfer some state agencies including soil and water conservation from the Department of Natural Resources to the new Department of Agriculture. Source: Monticello Daily Herald (4/7)


COMMENTARY: Court ruling could protect Great Lakes
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It's going to be a wait-and-see situation with regard to a recent federal court ruling ordering the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take action against illegal ballast water dumping in the Great Lakes. Source: Daily Herald (4/7)


Group needs bird watchers for Clinton River watershed
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Bird Studies Canada needs volunteers for its Marsh Monitoring Program in the Clinton River watershed this spring. Source: The Daily Oakland Press (4/7)


Drivers may pay at the pump for clean air
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Under a new proposal, gas dealers in an eight-county region in southeast Michigan would be required to buy and sell more expensive, but cleaner-burning gas. Source: The Detroit News (4/6)


Dig this: big sewer upgrade coming
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Cleveland plans to build 103 miles of new sewers and tunnels to collect sewage and polluted storm water that, for decades, has fouled Lake Erie and contaminated lakefront beaches so they were too dirty for swimming. Source: The Plain Dealer (4/6)


Waste firm asks Michigan for money
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Michigan officials this week may consider a request to use taxpayer money to help bring more trash into the state. Source: The Detroit News (4/6)


Gas prices may trip up tourism
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Tourism officials and economists predict a slight increase in tourism, Michigan's second-largest industry after autos, but they also worry that if gas prices keep climbing, tourism could fall off. Source: The Detroit News (4/6)


Toledo drops off pollution list
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Three and a half months after declaring that the health of Toledo-area residents was being jeopardized by too many fine-soot particles floating in the air, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency called a time-out and gave a second thought to what it had said. Source: The Toledo Blade (4/6)


Developer's plans leave Life-Saving station at Tawas Point in a fog
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A 129-year-old U.S. Life-Saving Service station on Tawas Point faces an uncertain future as plans move forward to build upscale homes at the site. Source: The Bay City Times (4/4)


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