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02/20 - Ballast water legislation pulled from House's docket: Legislation which would require shippers to more carefully regulate the ballast water they take on and release while heading to American ports has been pulled for consideration next week by the House leadership, according to U.S. Rep. Candice Miller's office.

02/20 - DEP says report's data on Great Lakes pollution outdated: The nation's top public health agency ignored the results of a government study of pollution near the Great Lakes, according to the watchdog group that leaked the report.

02/20 - Energy2100: Making the Lakes Great: We have reached a crossroads and are presented with an opportunity for change. Energy 2100: Making the Lakes Great opens the dialogue on our energy future as we search for energy options that sustain our Great Lakes.

02/19 - Protect Great Lakes: The Great Lakes are Michigan's greatest natural resource. They also are threatened. States without enough fresh water would love to siphon our supply.

02/19 - Great Lakes pact: Indiana has become the first state to sign the Great Lakes Compact. Gov. Mitch Daniels signed the measure into law Wednesday, allowing Indiana to officially join the compact which protects water from being piped or transported out of the Great Lakes watershed.

02/19 - Protecting the Great Lakes: Indiana has definitely aggravated neighboring Great Lakes states. State officials made dubious environmental decisions that many thought would have hurt Great Lakes water quality; air and water pollution permits from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management granted to the BP Whiting refinery serve as prime examples. Fortunately, state leaders have finally taken a step that should improve our standing with our neighbors.

02/18 - Canada's water crisis 'escalating': Canada is crisscrossed by innumerable rivers, some of which flow into three oceans. Yet Canada's fresh water isn't as abundant as you may think. And it's facing serious challenges and the looming menace of climate change, which is expected to exacerbate Canada's water problems and leave more of the world thirsting after our precious liquid resource.

02/18 - Forum to explore Great Lakes Water Compact: BizTimes Daily readers are invited to explore "The Issues and Science behind the Pending Great Lakes Water Compact" at a special Blueprint Briefing on Wednesday, March 5, at Discovery World on Milwaukee's lakefront.

02/18 - It's cold outside, but Lake Superior is getting warmer: Lake Superior is undergoing sudden increases in its water temperatures and dramatic declines in its lake levels, prompting scientists and others to wonder: Is the world's largest fresh water lake in the throes of irreversible change due to global warming?

02/17 - Lawmakers spar over lake waters: Ohioans will begin hearing much this week about the issue of preventing Great Lakes waters from being diverted to the water-hungry Southwest. If the debate sounds familiar, it is.

02/17 - Seaway authority to release plan to adjust water levels: The binational commission that regulates the flow in the St. Lawrence Seaway is set to release a proposal next month to adjust water flow through Cornwall's Moses-Saunders Dam.

02/17 - How to slow St. Clair flow still in question: Leaders of a $15-million study of lake levels in the upper Great Lakes -- Superior, Michigan, Huron -- and St. Clair said they're not yet sure whether the St. Clair River might need gates or weirs to halt its flow.

02/10 - Global Warming & Great Lakes: The Governor's Task Force on Global Warming today unanimously approved recommendations to cut energy use and erect wind turbines on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior.

02/10 - Lawmakers take on fish disease fight: Minnesota legislators have taken their first look at what would be the Great Lakes toughest law in regulating when and how ships could dump ballast water into Lake Superior.

02/10 - Reports suggest there's no time to waste in updating Great Lakes standards: Governments have been presented with report after report suggesting there's no time to waste in developing a new binational agreement to better protect the Great Lakes.

02/09 - Disease risk high near toxic waters: More than a dozen Michigan communities in the Great Lakes basin show higher than normal rates of health problems, according to a federal report that has been withheld over concerns about how it was conducted. The study, conducted by a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says there are higher rates of infant mortality, cancer and other health problems in the 25 former hazardous waste sites that still register high levels of contamination.

02/09 - Dry areas eye Great Lakes water: If there's one thing Michigan has, it's fresh water. But now, the Department of the Interior is preparing a 10-year study to determine the nation's water use, supplies and future needs. The department said the study is necessary because of chronic water shortages, dramatic population growth and the potential for water conflicts.

02/09 - Activists fear new list could harm river cleanup efforts: A shift in how Indiana compiles a federally mandated list of its polluted waterways has removed about 800 stretches of rivers and streams from that list, leaving environmentalists worried that it could hamper watershed restoration efforts.

02/08 - Great Lakes compact hits rough waters: The Great Lakes states have made headlines across the region during the last decade for a bipartisan effort to craft new rules to block thirsty outsiders from someday tapping into, and potentially draining, the world's largest freshwater system.

02/08 - Editorial: Use science, not politics, to guard Great Lakes water: With Wisconsin legislators preparing to adjourn for the year, Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch suddenly wants to rework the proposed Great Lakes Compact, which governors of eight states and two Canadian provinces approved two years ago.

02/08 - Less ice on Lake Superior: Charts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show less ice cover on Lake Superior than was present at this time last year, despite colder average surface water temperatures.

02/07 - Compact touches off round of Capitol bickering: This legislative session has been marked by a spirit of bipartisanship that hadn't been seen in past sessions, with little rhetoric of one party blasting the other. That changed Thursday with a fissure over the Great Lakes compact - an issue that's supposed to be bipartisan.

02/07 - Allegan County approves ban on phosphorus lawn fertilizer: Starting next year, phosphorus-based lawn fertilizer will be largely prohibited on residential lawns in Allegan County. The county Board of Commissioners adopted the ban after a public hearing Thursday at which four people voiced support for the ordinance. The board approved the ordinance, which takes effect Jan. 1, by an 8-2 vote.

02/07 - DEQ list of algae-plagued waters doesn't include Saginaw Bay: Does the Saginaw Bay have an algae problem? "Yes" may seem like the obvious answer, with the mounds of dead algae, or muck, that's been washing up on shorelines with increasing intensity in recent years. Some of the muck has tested positive for traces of human sewage and cattle manure.

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