Daily News: August 17, 2006
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Adopt-a-Beach
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Be part of the world's largest shoreline cleanup, the Annual September Adopt-a-Beach Day on Sept. 16. Thousands of volunteers come out to area beaches to lend a hand to improve lake health and enjoy our Great Lakes.
In the News
Grants to fund water cleanup
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (8/16)
The streams of gray-brown soil and pollution that streak through the Genesee River and its tributaries with every heavy rain keep Rochester from taking full advantage of one of its greatest resources — a river at the heart of the city.
DNR to keep tight limits on commercial fishing
Duluth News Tribune (8/16)
Reversing its earlier proposal, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has decided not to expand commercial harvesting of lake trout by state commercial fishermen.
Tritium in water under nuclear plant
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (8/16)
The release of tritium underneath the Kewaunee nuclear plant doesn't pose a health risk because the radioactive substance hasn't been found in drinking water, federal nuclear regulators said.
EDITORIAL: Beach cleanup makes progress
Detroit Free Press (8/16)
Michigan has reason to be proud of its Great Lakes beaches, and the most recent annual report on how clean they are mostly justifies that pride.
Police weren't warned of Mackinac Bridge threat
Traverse City Record-Eagle (8/16)
Police in the Mackinac Straits area learned of a potential terrorist threat to the Mackinac Bridge in the same way as everyone else: through the media.
Environmental groups challenge Superior forest plan
Duluth News Tribune (8/16)
Four environmental groups have filed suit against the U.S. Forest Service alleging the long-term Superior National Forest plan fails to protect biodiversity in and around the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
EPA finishes work on Superfund site in Upper Peninsula
Traverse City Record-Eagle (8/15)
Twenty years after placing it on the Superfund list of toxic sites, the federal government has finished cleaning up a former dumping ground for copper mining waste in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula.
Wisconsin, Michigan agree on Menominee River sturgeon rules
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (8/15)
The upcoming sturgeon fishing season in the Menominee River bordering Wisconsin and Upper Michigan will be cut in half under plans announced by wildlife agencies in the two states to protect the population of the ancient fish.
Farmers react to pesticide ban
Great Lakes Radio Consortium (8/14)
Farmers who use a highly toxic pesticide will have to quickly find an alternative if the EPA sticks with a decision to phase it out in four years. But some farmers say they have no alternative.
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