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04/20 - Earth Healing Initiative: Tribal school students and their parents recently learned a creative lesson about the environment and the human capability to waste as they rummaged through their trash to find discarded items that were used to make the heads, legs, arms, eyes and bodies of "Garbage Monsters." |
04/20 - Huron County Water Expert Speaks To Arizona Conference: The stewardship and conservation land supervisor with the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority is going to speak to a group in Arizona later this summer. Kate Monk has been invited to talk to the Soil and Water Conservation Society in Tuscon, Arizona in July. |
04/20 - 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. |
04/19 - No live fire weapons drills on Lake Superior this year: There will not be any live ammunition or weapons training on the Great Lakes this year. Criticism of the drills has the Coast Guard to seeking alternatives. Mike Simonson reports. |
04/19 - Miller votes for reauthorization of the BEACH Protection Act: U.S. Rep. Candice Miller, MI-10, voted Wednesday in support of the BEACH Protection Act. The legislation - HR 2537 - would reauthorize the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Act that was enacted in 2000. |
04/19 - Cass: Protect Great Lakes water from diversion: Cass County commissioners adopted a resolution April 17 for the Great Lakes Water Resources Compact to guard against diversion. "This risk is increasing as water shortages become more acute and the parties that oppose ceding control of the waters of the (St. Lawrence River) Basin to the Great Lakes states and provinces become more powerful," states Resolution 52 of 2008 offered by Commissioner Debbie Johnson, D-Niles. |
04/18 - Senator Dick Durbin Introduces Clean Cruise Ship Act: U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today introduced legislation to help protect the world's oceans and the Great Lakes from damage caused by cruise ship pollution. "Massive cruise ships can be massive ocean polluters," Durbin said. "We cannot afford to leave the destruction of the oceans in the wake of our vacation cruises." |
04/18 - Great Lakes watchers tracking fish populations: Great Lakes watchers are taking a high-tech approach to managing fish populations by mechanically implanting tiny identification codes in the noses of fish so they can be tracked, identified and provide data in the future about the health of the waters. |
04/18 - Op-Ed: Water act hits stormy seas: Nobody doubts that Vern Ehlers, who represents the Grand Rapids area in Congress, is a conservative. He is a pillar of the Christian Reformed Church and a stalwart Republican; at 74, he shares a birthday with one of his political heroes, Ronald Reagan. But he is also genuinely worried about the Great Lakes, and the water supply generally, which is why he is the major co-sponsor of the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007. |
04/17 - Environmental program weds classroom, service work: Protecting the environment and giving young people a sense of their own importance while enhancing their learning are the goals of a $200,000 grant project that will benefit schools in four counties. |
04/17 - Great Lakes under microscope: From its vantage point on the shoreline in Cleveland, the Great Lakes Science Center has an expansive view of Lake Erie with the waters of this Great Lake extending off to a seemingly unlimited horizon. As one of America's largest interactive science museums, it focuses on both the finite resources of our environment and the infinite resourcefulness of technology, particularly in Ohio and the Great Lakes Region. |
04/17 - Dear Earth: How can we help you?: As Earth Day approaches, eight leaders concerned about environmental policy in Wisconsin reflect on what has been accomplished since the first Earth Day - and what remains to be done. |
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