By Veronica Volk from Great Lakes Today Last year, 72 dams across the US were demolished; hundreds more were removed in the past decade. Most dam removals are part of an […]
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Enbridge: “No Evidence of Corrosion along Pipeline”
As you saw last week on greatlakesnow.org, Michigan lawmakers including Governor Rick Snyder are calling for Enbridge Oil Company to immediately repair areas of lost protective coating on the oil […]
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Will Houston floods be a wake up call for Great Lakes cities?
“No one grasps problems like this until it happens to them” Torrential rains flooded highways and homes. Rail lines closed, flooding caused power outages and a hospital was forced to […]
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The Great Lakes Author Series – Writers On Water: Elizabeth Kolbert
Today, greatlakesnow.org releases the second in a video series called “The Great Lakes Author Series: Writers on Water”. We will be interviewing various authors who write about the Great Lakes and water-related issues […]
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Stone Lab: Ground Zero in the fight for the health of Lake Erie
Since 1895, Stone Lab has been a freshwater field station – the oldest one in the United States. In 1925, the lab was moved from Sandusky, Ohio, to Gibraltar, a […]
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Authorities investigate death of thousands of fish in NW Ohio
By Tom Henry | The Toledo Blade WEST JEFFERSON, Ohio — Manure spread across more than 100 acres of farmland just before a major thunderstorm rolled in killed “close to […]
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The Carp Autopsy: “No Good News”
The autopsy is over. But what did we learn? On June 22nd, a silver carp was discovered 9 miles from Lake Michigan in the Little Calumet River of the Chicago […]
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It’s Jobs versus the Environment in Wisconsin. And Jobs won.
Foxconn Technology, the Taiwan-based consumer electronics manufacturer has selected southeast Wisconsin as the site for a new plant that will employ up to 13,000 tech workers.
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How healthy is Lake Erie? The Mayflies know.
From Great Lakes Bureau Chief Mary Ellen Geist: Today, greatlakesnow.org posts the third in a series of short videos about the Great Lakes by filmmaker Aaron Martin. Aaron is a producer and director […]
