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| 03/16 - Coast Guard to study effects of 'cargo sweepings': For more than 75 years, shipping companies that haul iron ore, coal, salt and limestone have dumped their "cargo sweepings" -- residual materials and wash water left on freighters after they are unloaded -- into the Great Lakes to avoid contaminating future loads. | |
| 03/16 - Key senator says Great Lakes cleanup plan too costly: A Great Lakes cleanup plan prepared at President Bush's request is too aggressive for the tight federal budget, a senator who is key to securing funding for the proposal said Thursday. | |
| 03/16 - Taft seeks funds for $20B Great Lakes plan: Gov. Bob Taft appeared before a U.S. Senate panel yesterday for what he said was likely his "last shot" on behalf of Great Lakes governors to get a multiyear, $20 billion master plan for the lakes off the shelf. | |
| 03/15 - Senate panel hears plea for Great Lakes cleanup: The Great Lakes are ecologically ill, environmentalists told a Senate committee Thursday, pleading with lawmakers to help fund a $20 billion, long-term effort to restore and protect the nation's five Great Lakes. | |
| 03/15 - Mexican forum to pool suggestions on future water policies: Thousands of water experts are gathered in the Mexican capital to discuss some scary stuff: future droughts measured in millions of deaths, possible wars fought over rivers and how bad water management could scar civilization forever. | |
| 03/15 - Great Lakes Need Help, Voinovich Says: Failure to promptly fix Great Lakes environmental problems could lead to a catastrophe as severe as Hurricane Katrina's damage, Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich forecast Thursday. | |
| 03/14 - Port officials back lawmakers' call for regulation of ballast water: A call for tough federal regulation of ship ballast water has the backing of Indiana port officials. The state Port Commission, which regulates the port at Burns Harbor and two other Indiana ports, spoke in favor of a resolution passed by the Indiana General Assembly. | |
| 03/14 - Comparing funding levels for Great Lakes cleanup: Some Great Lakes restoration programs, with funding approved for the current 2006 federal budget, President Bush's requests for the 2007 budget and the percentage increase or decrease... | |
| 03/14 - Great Lakes Hot Spots in Senate Spotlight: A $20 billion Great Lakes restoration plan, drafted by a regionwide group last year, holds hope for the Saginaw Bay, advocates say. | |
| 03/13 - Editorial: Don't let guard down on lake restoration: The good news is that yellow perch are making a strong comeback in Lake Michigan. The not-so-good-news is that the number of the popular fish — both for catching and eating — is still a long way from where it was years ago. | |
| 03/13 - Editorial: New laws benefit our Great Lakes: Michigan has finally taken its responsibility as a Great Lakes water guardian seriously enough to put it in writing. | |
| 03/13 - Lake Superior shipping season opens early for Twin Ports: Warm weather and power plants hungry for coal have led to an early start to the Twin Ports shipping season. | |
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