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Cease Fire Coast Guard will cease target practice at Great Lakes		20 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Cease Fire Coast Guard will cease target practice at Great Lakes In a win for lovers of safety and the environment, the U.S. Coast Guard has withdrawn a plan to conduct machine-gun firing practice in the Great Lakes. After much complaining from boaters, Canadians, congressfolk, local mayors, and other sane people opposed to toxic lead bullets flying amok, a regional Coast Guard commander admitted the plan was " ...
Topics: Department of Defense, Great Lakes, news (all these topics)

So That's Why the Bay is Green Billions of gallons of raw sewage flow into Great Lakes annually, report says		29 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
So That's Why the Bay is Green Billions of gallons of raw sewage flow into Great Lakes annually, report says The Great Lakes, subject of our favorite mnemonic device (HOMES), is being contaminated by homes -- and other places where people poo. According to a report released today, 20 cities release billions of gallons of raw sewage into the lakes every year, enough to fill 37,000 Olympic-size pools. Th ...
Topics: Great Lakes, news, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Great Expectations Big Great Lakes cleanup plan gets an OK, but no federal funds		13 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Great Expectations Big Great Lakes cleanup plan gets an OK, but no federal funds U.S. EPA administrator Stephen Johnson and a bipartisan coalition of Midwestern lawmakers and officials approved a 15-year strategy to restore the Great Lakes on Monday. But the Bush administration says it won't fund the plan, which may cost up to $20 billion. The strategy to pull the lakes back from imminent ecologica ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Great Lakes, news, politics (all these topics)

The Ballast's in Your Court Enviro-backed Great Lakes bill stalls, industry-backed bill advances		18 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
The Ballast's in Your Court Enviro-backed Great Lakes bill stalls, industry-backed bill advances Following this summer's massive Detroit News series on threats to the Great Lakes, a key protection measure is ... wait for it ... stalled in Congress. Officials from Great Lakes states and conservationists back the National Aquatic Invasive Species Act, which would force shippers to use stronger measures to kill invasive species in ...
Topics: Great Lakes, news, politics (all these topics)

Lakes and Pains Great Lakes beset by myriad threats		15 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Lakes and Pains Great Lakes beset by myriad threats This weekend, The Detroit News published a massive series on the latest threats facing the Great Lakes -- and we mean massive: close to 30 articles. The lakes, which hold a fifth of the world's freshwater, were once emblematic of America's environmental malaise, choked with algae and pollutants. While water quality has improved, a panoply of new threats now confront ...
Topics: Great Lakes, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Hard of Huron Great Lakes Face Continuing Environmental Threats		14 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Hard of Huron Great Lakes Face Continuing Environmental Threats While overall water quality in the Great Lakes has improved over the past 30 years, the lakes still face dire threats from chemical pollution, pathogens, and invasive species, according to the biennial report on the lakes' water quality from the U.S.-Canadian International Joint Commission. The report hailed the reduction of several pollutants, but drew a ...
Topics: Great Lakes, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Coolin' the Gang Toronto Cools Itself with Cold Water		20 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Coolin' the Gang Toronto Cools Itself with Cold Water Starting this week, near-freezing water from the depths of Lake Ontario will bring relief to heat-stricken residents of Toronto, Ontario. A multi-million-dollar project will pump water from the lake through three intake pipes, where it will be used to cool down other water, which will subsequently be used to cool buildings in downtown Toronto; the original water wi ...
Topics: Canada, Great Lakes, water pollution (all these topics)

What's Good for the Michigander Is Good for the Goose Lessons from the Great Lakes on how enviros can win votes and influence people	Keith Schneider	15 Oct 2003	Main Dish
Bush chats up Michiganders in Monroe. Photo: White House. President Bush swooped into Monroe, Mich., in mid-September for an appearance at one of the largest and most polluting coal-fired power plants in the world. As an exploration of his ideas about environmental policy, the visit was completely baffling. (Why go to such a filthy fa ...
Topics: Great Lakes, Michigan, politics (all these topics)

Detroit Yuck City Illegal Dumping Pushes Up Toxic Contamination in Great Lakes		06 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Detroit Yuck City Illegal Dumping Pushes Up Toxic Contamination in Great Lakes Toxic pollution in Great Lakes waterways has jumped 25 percent over the past six years, thanks at least in part to rampant illegal discharges from large industrial facilities and sewer plants. Meanwhile, government enforcement efforts on both the national and state levels are stagnating, meaning that most of t ...
Topics: energy, Great Lakes, Michigan, pollution and waste, state politics (all these topics)

All That Jazz and Dredging		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
All That Jazz and Dredging The federal government has earmarked $370 million to clean up the waterways of East Chicago, one of the most polluted areas in the Great Lakes region -- and the town's citizens are unhappy about it. Local residents and environmental groups say the remediation solution proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is as hazardous to the community's health as the ori ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago, Great Lakes, health, Illinois (all these topics)

Hitting the Bottle Michigan residents fight for control of the state's water	Keith Schneider	23 Oct 2002	Main Dish
Until two years ago, the 40,550 generally well-behaved Midwesterners of Mecosta County, Mich., regularly attended church, sent their children off to school on yellow buses, and never for a moment worried that their clean, freshwater supply would ever run dry. Mecosta County, after all, sits near the center of Michigan's lower peninsula, which itself sits at the center of the largest supply ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Great Lakes, Michigan, mining and drilling, politics, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Great Lakes Minds Think Alike		21 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Great Lakes Minds Think Alike The U.S. government has pledged to spend billions of dollars to restore the Florida Everglades -- and now the Great Lakes states are trying to figure out how they can get a piece of the federal pie, too. For more than a year, the governors of the eight states have been meeting to formulate a plan for restoring the lakes. Slated to be released next month, the plan is l ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, Great Lakes, politics (all these topics)

Fish Styx		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Fish Styx In Ohio, what you don't know can hurt you: The state has just cut a program that warned the public about consuming pollution-tainted fish. In the past, the state EPA and Department of Natural Resources collected fish samples and tested them for pesticides, mercury, and other toxic chemicals; the resulting information was then assessed by the state Health Department for its effects on humans and Ohioans wer ...
Topics: Great Lakes, marine life, Ohio, toxics (all these topics)

Lake Manna From Heaven?		03 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Lake Manna From Heaven? The U.S. EPA has unveiled a new Bush administration plan to protect and restore the Great Lakes. The plan aims to reduce PCB concentration in some Great Lakes fish species, restore or enhance 100,000 acres of wetland in the Great Lakes Basin, decrease introductions of invasive species, and accelerate the clean-up of contaminated sites. However, the government has not set ...
Topics: Great Lakes, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Girls Will Be Boys		30 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Girls Will Be Boys Environmental toxins are disrupting human biology at the most basic level: reproduction. That was the conclusion of researchers at Michigan State University, who found that men with higher levels of exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were more like to father boys than girls. PCBs are known to cause sex-related defects in animals (although the researchers were quick to explain that boys ar ...
Topics: Great Lakes, health, Michigan, toxics (all these topics)

Lake It or Not		12 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Lake It or Not Overuse and pollution of the world's lakes threaten nearly 1 billion people who depend on lake water for fishing, irrigation, transportation, tourism, sewage, and drinking water, global experts said during an international conference on lake management being held this week in Japan. More than half of the world's lakes and reservoirs are alr ...
Topics: Africa, Aral Sea, Florida, Great Lakes, Lake Victoria, lakes, North America, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Grateful Lakes		02 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Grateful Lakes In a move that pleased environmentalists but irked industry, the U.S. Congress voted yesterday to ban new oil and gas drilling in the Great Lakes for two years. The measure, which was part of a $24.6 billion federal energy and water bill, was passed overwhelmingly in both chambers despite President Bush's recent calls to tap into more domestic energy sources. Under the bill, states would b ...
Topics: energy, Great Lakes, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Twenty-first Century Fox		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Twenty-first Century Fox More than 30 tons of toxic PCBs will be dredged from 19 miles of Wisconsin's Fox River if a cleanup plan announced yesterday wins public support. To atone for decades of dumping the toxins, a consortium of seven paper companies would pick up the $308 million price tag for the cleanup of the Fox, which is the leading ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Great Lakes, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Wading to Exhale		01 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Wading to Exhale In a heretofore undocumented ecological process, the Great Lakes are purifying themselves by "exhaling" decades-old toxic chemicals, according to a study released on Friday by the Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network. Lake Ontario alone released nearly two tons of now-banned PCBs between 1992 and 1996; together, the five lakes eliminated 10 tons of PCBs and close to four tons of the pesticide Dieldren, al ...
Topics: Great Lakes, toxics (all these topics)

Hard of Huron		17 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Hard of Huron Michigan natural resources officials voted on Friday to lift a four-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling beneath Lakes Huron and Michigan. Supporters said the lake-bottom deposits would boost energy supplies in the U.S. while bringing the state royalty money that could be used to purchase public land. Critics said the risks of the drilling were too great, even th ...
Topics: Department of Natural Resources, Great Lakes, Michigan, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Come Shell or High Water		29 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Come Shell or High Water The best way to rid the Great Lakes region of invasive zebra mussels may be to zap them with radio waves, Purdue University researchers told the American Chemical Society at its meeting in Chicago yesterday. The fast-breeding zebra mussels, which were brought to the U.S. in the ballast water of cargo ships, are threatening native aquatic life and clogging pipes at water purification and power plants. The Purdue ...
Topics: Great Lakes, toxics (all these topics)

Lease Me Alone		26 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Lease Me Alone Michigan Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus (R) made pit stops in three Great Lakes cities on Monday to spread the word that he doesn't support the plan by his boss, Gov. John Engler (R), to end a moratorium on new leases for oil and gas drilling under the lakes. Engler says the drilling would be environmentally a-okay; Posthumus says the risks would be too great. Why the split? You guessed it: Posthumus is expected to ...
Topics: Great Lakes, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Lake Mess Again A plan to drill under the Great Lakes is fracturing the Michigan Republican Party	Keith Schneider	29 Jun 2001	Main Dish
Only a few things really get Americans to sit up and pay attention. Oprah's weight. Ally's hair. And a rise in the price of gasoline. The latter, coupled with lucrative campaign contributions from the energy industry, is why President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney thought that an energy plan based on new drilling from the coast of Alaska to the coast of Florid ...
Topics: Great Lakes, Michigan, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

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