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| 01/30 - EPA: Zebra mussels may increase beach muck: Environmental Protection Agency officials updated a mid-Michigan crowd on plans to explore nutrient levels in the Saginaw Bay. | |
| 01/30 - Water power: Pennsylvania has taken a step toward securing one of its most valuable resources - fresh water. On Monday, the state House voted unanimously to enroll Pennsylvania in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact. | |
| 01/30 - Water not a liquid asset: Activist Maude Barlow says water is the future, but it is increasingly being bought, sold and controlled by private corporations, a trend she says undercuts national sovereignty and human rights. | |
| 01/29 - Mayor optimistic on lake water: Waukesha has a "fair chance" of getting the Lake Michigan water it seeks to solve its water problems, Mayor Larry Nelson said Thursday after meeting in Madison with legislators who are key to passing the state version of the Great Lakes Water Compact. | |
| 01/29 - Great Lakes lawmakers dangle electoral votes for promises of federal lakes protection: State lawmakers from four Great Lakes states said Thursday it's time presidential candidates paid more attention to the region, and they dangled 141 electoral votes as bait to lure the candidates' interest. | |
| 01/29 - Conservation group angry at how Indiana now tracks polluted waterways: Indiana has a new way of listing which waterways are polluted; a Chicago environmental group has a problem with what's now being left off the list. | |
| 01/28 - Congress must act to guard Great Lakes: Experts contend that one new aquatic invasive species is discovered in the Great Lakes every 28 weeks. It's a growing menace to our lakes and the commerce and recreation they provide. | |
| 01/28 - DNR reviewing Great Lakes dredging policies: Removing invasive species and other public nuisances from Wisconsin's Great Lakes could cost lakefront property owners less money. | |
| 01/28 - Wind power, yes, but also water power: The six wind turbines officially launched in Ravenswood in Eastern Ontario Wednesday come as a surprise to many first-time viewers, who look up in shock or disapproval at their novelty, their height and their massive, mesmerizing blades. | |
| 01/27 - Half steps not good enough for lakes: Swishing out ballast tanks with salt water is a helpful measure in the fight against foreign species invading the Great Lakes. But it won't deter every menace, and Michigan must keep pressing for more extensive solutions. | |
| 01/27 - New Berlin studying water rate revision: To demonstrate it is serious about conservation as it works to gain a pipeline to Lake Michigan, this southwestern Milwaukee suburb is working to alter its user rates to encourage residents and industries to consume less water. | |
| 01/27 - Great Lakes Suffer From Lower Water Levels: Power plants have been forced to extend pipes that draw in cooling water, former wetlands have dried up, and docks have led to muck rather than water thanks to lower water levels in the Great Lakes. Driving the drying is a decrease in ice cover every winter, according to the Washington Post. | |
| 01/26 - More Great Lakes cleanup needed, some say: The Great Lakes are less polluted than in the past, but U.S. efforts to improve water quality are hampered by unclear lines of responsibility and inadequate funding, a witness told lawmakers Wednesday. | |
| 01/26 - Approve the compact and protect the Great Lakes: Two years ago, the governors of the eight states that border the Great Lakes signed the Great Lakes compact. This landmark agreement protects the world's largest freshwater system as well as the environmental and economic benefits the Great Lakes provide for Milwaukee and our region. | |
| 01/26 - Audit: U.S. lagging on Great Lakes toxins: The federal government is running behind on developing ways to measure highly toxic chemicals in the Great Lakes that accumulate in fish, creating health risks for people and wildlife that eat them, congressional investigators say. | |
| 01/25 - Bloody-red shrimp invades Great Lakes: The newest invader swarming in the Great Lakes is the bloody-red shrimp and they're bloody likely to have a negative impact. "They're more widespread than we'd originally thought," Marten Koops, a Fisheries and Oceans Canada research scientist, said this week. | |
| 01/25 - Great Lakes challenge: Great Lakes congressmen walked a fine line this week in calling for a major national push to clean up the world's largest fresh water system. There was no mention of diverting water to other regions of the nation - nor should there be. | |
| 01/25 - USGS genetics research sheds light on Great Lakes' fish virus: A devastating virus that has killed thousands of fish in the Great Lakes over the past few years is different from other strains of the same virus found in Europe and the West Coast of the United States, according to new genetic research by the US Geological Survey. | |
| 01/24 - Protecting the Great Lakes: An ice floe at sea moves faster than Congress is proceeding on pending legislation to protect the Great Lakes from invasive species and viruses that arrive in the ballast water of foreign ships. | |
| 01/24 - Stopping invasive species requires stricter policies: U.S. officials who manage the St. Lawrence Seaway want to require that oceangoing ships flush their ballast tanks with salt water before entering the seaway. | |
| 01/24 - New York Sea Grant websites to teach about Great Lakes: In late January the St. Lawrence River sits rather quiet, but of course during the summer season that all changes. Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence have become popular spots for fishing and boating. | |
| 01/23 - Great Lakes restoration program gets funding: Wetlands in the Great Lakes region will receive a helping hand from a government and private- sector collaboration established to restore and protect the freshwater ecosystem. | |
| 01/23 - An effort to get Wisconsin into the Great Lakes Compact: A couple of Wisconsin State Senators say they will introduce legislation to protect the water in the Great Lakes. Wisconsin is the only Great Lakes state that has not done anything about threats to divert water from the lakes to drier areas of the country. | |
| 01/23 - Great Lakes' water quality remains a challenge: Despite progress in cleaning up the five Great Lakes, a top congressional lawmaker said water quality "is still at risk." | |
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