Great Lakes News

<> Levin leads Great Lakes senators in pushing for funding for the lakes in Congressional spending bills

<> See melting from space as spring takes hold in southern Great Lakes; Lake Superior still frozen - See how the satellite images show spring progressing as warmer temperatures have taken away a lot of ice on Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario, but not on Lake Superior

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<> Corps Meeting On dredging in Cleveland Harbor and Cuyahoga River - Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District will host a public information open house about proposed open lake placement of sediment dredged from the upper federal navigation channel of the Cuyahoga River.

<> Addressing the Great Lakes Prescription Drug Problem - The following student post is by Karinne Marcolini (B.A., Michigan State University; J.D., Wayne State University Law School, expected 2015). While in law school, Karinne has worked at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern. . .

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<> Chemicals take various routes to Great Lakes - Scientists discovered that Toronto exports polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, to Lake Ontario mostly through the air. But its flame retardants and combustion pollutants reach the lake through tributaries.

<> Mayors Make Case for Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Protection in Ottawa - Mayors are meeting with decision makers in Ottawa in the first ever Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Day on Parliament Hill, to bring attention to urgent issues facing shoreline communities and the waters of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence basin.

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<> Groups: Permanent Solution to Invasive Species Crisis Needs to Remain Priority for Army Corps, States and Congress - Only viable solution is to physically separate Great Lakes, Mississippi River basins Conservation groups are urging the Obama Administration and U.S. Congress to maintain their focus on a permanent, long-term solution. . . Groups submit comments.

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<> Great Lakes Month in Review: Tar sands, Great Lakes Day, water retail - At the end of each month Current State checks in with Great Lakes commentator and journalist Gary Wilson for updates on environmental stories from around the Basin.

• More on issues surrounding potential tar sands shipping on the Great Lakes

<> Water Center Awards $214,600 Grant for Development of New Great Lakes Ecosystem Management Tools

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<> Great Lakes ice cover update: See Lake Michigan ice disappear, and where records were set - Peak ice has been reached on the Great Lakes and now the ice is rapidly disappearing.

<> Great Lakes shipping industry to inject $500 million into infrastructure - The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway system is spending $500 million over the next four years to rebuild lock walls and gates and automate the system that connects the eastern Great Lakes with the St. Lawrence River.

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<> Lake Michigan oil spill estimate doubles in size, possibly up to 1,600 gallons, BP reports - Company representatives now estimate between 630 and 1,638 gallons of oil were recovered since the spill at BP's Whiting Refinery on Monday.

<> UM plans study on adapting to changing water levels - Associated Press - The University of Michigan is planning a wide-ranging study of how people and businesses in the Great Lakes region can adapt to changing water levels.

<> Effort to restore Lake Michigan's yellow perch population needs fresh ideas - The Lake Michigan Perch Summit was held Saturday in Chicago, Ill. outlining changes to Lake Michigan's ecosystem which have affected Yellow Perch as well as different state's programs to protect the fish.

<> Freighter ships out, ushering in Great Lakes maritime season - The Great Lakes shipping season began on Tuesday with the opening of the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Wednesday afternoon, Erie's first freighter of the season, departed the Erie shipyard, where it had been dry-docked. . .

<> Expert: Runoff spurs Lake Erie algal blooms - Dr. Jeffery Reuter of the Stone Laboratory called for a 40 percent reduction in phosphorus loading at Tuesday's Lake Erie farm forum saying 2013 and 2011 have been the only algal blooms known to last through October. . .

<> Kasich's Great Lakes pledge $10M - Ohio Gov. Kasich administration's plan to spend $10 million over two years on possible alternatives to continued open-lake dumping of channel dredging was lauded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's top Great Lakes. . .