Michigan senators critical of timetable The debate about how to stop Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes hit another milestone last week as the Army Corps of Engineers’ extended […]
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Fighting for air in Southwest Detroit
The Sierra Club’s Rhonda Anderson drives down Jefferson Avenue across the city line where Detroit turns into River Rouge. “This area has always been identified as the Tri-Cities,” Anderson said […]
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Expect snow, not ice on the Great Lakes this winter
By Elizabeth Miller from Great Lakes Today Over the past two winters, the Great Lakes have had a below-average ice cover. And that’s expected to continue this year. One of ice climatologist […]
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BREAKING NEWS: Enbridge’s Line 5 temporarily shut down
Enbridge complies with their agreement to shut down Line 5 pipeline if there is severe weather with waves more than 8 feet high. Mary Ellen Geist, Great Lakes bureau chief […]
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Water / Justice “This is what democracy looks like…”
From Great Lakes Bureau Chief Mary Ellen Geist: For the past six months, Detroit Public Television’s Great Lakes Bureau has been traveling throughout the Great Lakes Region filming several documentaries. […]
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Michigan agencies split on protecting critical coastal wetland near Lake St. Clair
DNR and DEQ divided on controlling invasive Phragmites A project to hydrologically manage and combat invasive Phragmites in an important wetland bordering Lake St. Clair has two state agencies at […]
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Along Lake Ontario, high waters — and damage — persist
By Caitlin Whyte from Great Lakes Today The grey sky seems a bit more ominous out here. With the winds whipping around and waves crashing on the break wall, Douglas Dobson walks […]
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IJC’s Great Lakes Assessment focuses on drinking water and untreated sewage
An interview with IJC’s Lana Pollack The International Joint Commission has just released its First Triennial Assessment of Progress under the 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The biggest issues […]
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New Safety Standards for the Line 5 Pipeline
Legal agreement reached between Governor Snyder, Enbridge People who oppose the Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac woke up the Monday after Thanksgiving thinking they’d been given an […]
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U.S. Senate moves closer to full $300 million funding for Great Lakes
Governors analyze $100 million paid to farmers; Collaborative calls for Canada to invest. A Senate committee that funds the government voted last week to maintain funding for Great Lakes cleanup […]