Great Lakes Daily News: 02 May 2008

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> Great Lakes Daily News: 02 May 2008
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> EPA official ousted while fighting Dow
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> Following months of internal bickering over Mary Gade's interactions with Dow, the administration forced her to quit Thursday as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Midwest office. Source: The Chicago Tribune (5/2)
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> Commercial fishermen fight for new quota system
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> Ontario commercial fishermen have turned to the courts in a bid to move to a new system for setting their quota. Source: The Tillsonburg News (5/2)
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> Lake-level study could lead to action
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> Government officials studying sinking Great Lakes water levels said they are hoping for a big crowd at a public hearing on the issue Saturday in Muskegon. Source: The Muskegon Chronicle (5/2)
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> It's the first sighting of a violet-green swallow
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> A violet-green swallow was found in Marquette's Lower Harbor last Sunday, the first time the species has been documented in Michigan. Source: The Mining Journal (5/2)
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> Water levels top worries, survey finds
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> A poll released Thursday shows Wisconsin residents are more worried about declining water levels than about global warming. Source: The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (5/2)
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> Waterfront owners anxiously await new rules
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> For property owners around the Bay of Quinte concerned about fluctuating water levels, anything that can address the roller-coaster levels of the lakes as they affect the Bay of Quinte can't come soon enough. Source: Trenton Trentonian (5/2)
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> Regulators approve controversial BP permit
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> Illinois regulators issued the final environmental permit needed for BP PLC to start work on a planned $3.8 billion expansion of its oil refinery along Lake Michigan. Source: The Associated Press (5/1)
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> A new season for the Erie Canal
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> Canal Corp., which operates the Erie, Oswego, Champlain and Cayuga-Seneca canals, had proposed reducing open hours by five hours this season in order to cut its costs. Source: MPNnow (5/1)
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