Our Work
Here’s some of the work we’re doing to ensure a healthy environment, strong economy and high quality of life for current and future generations.
EVENTS
Thank you for joining us in Erie!
Thanks to all who joined us for the 2022 Great Lakes Commission Annual Meeting, October 11-13 in Erie, Pennsylvania. The event convened leaders from the United States and Canada on top issues facing the Great Lakes. Click to learn more!
JOBS
Position available at the GLC
The GLC has an immediate opening for a senior program specialist to assist with various projects and issue-specific regional collaboratives. Join our staff in Ann Arbor — learn more and apply today!
LIBRARY
The Advisor
The August 2022 edition of the Commission’s e-newsletter, The Advisor, includes news from the GLC, plus new tools from Blue Accounting, the Invasive Mussel Collaborative, and the HABs Collaborative; and more.
NEWS
Explore HABs impacts on human health
The Great Lakes HABs Collaborative released two new fact sheets on the impacts of harmful algal blooms (HABs) on human health. Learn more and check out the fact sheets.
LIBRARY
2021 Great Lakes Commission Annual Report
The 2021 Great Lakes Commission Annual Report is now available online! The GLC’s Annual Report includes remarks from Chair Todd L. Ambs and Executive Director Erika Jensen. Read the report here.
NEWS
Invasive Mussel Collaborative releases new tool
The Invasive Mussel Collaborative released a coordination tool to help protect the Great Lakes basin from the impacts of invasive mussels. Read more about the new “Dreissena Project Coordination Mapper” here.
Ohio’s proposed transfer for manure oversight is denied after 20-year debate
After 22 years of being in a state of largely self-imposed bureaucratic limbo, Ohio has learned that its effort to shift oversight of CAFO-generated manure discharges away from state environmental regulators has been denied by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency....
Why Line 5 will likely remain open despite Democratic control of Lansing
The Enbridge Line 5 pipeline was one of few environmental issues to take center stage this campaign season. Despite the outcome of the election, the battle for the pipeline’s future lies mostly in federal courts and international diplomats’ negotiating rooms. Read the...
Researchers in Minnesota acquire first genome for doli algal bloom
For the first time, a genome sequence has been developed for an unfamiliar species of harmful algae that’s been blooming in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission Position Available: Senior Program Specialist
The GLC has an immediate opening to join our staff to assist with implementation of various projects and provide support to several issue-specific regional collaboratives coordinated by the GLC. Apply by December 2, 2022.
Great Lakes Commission video highlights restoration of Maumee River site
Ann Arbor, Mich. – The Great Lakes Commission (GLC) today released a video highlighting its work to restore a former confined disposal site along the Maumee River in Ohio. The site, known as Penn 7, was used in the 1970s for disposal of silt dredged from the Maumee’s...
Great Lakes Commission approves regional blueprint for water infrastructure, calls for increased icebreaking capacity
Erie, Pa. – The Great Lakes Commission (GLC) passed resolutions calling for increased icebreaking capacity in the Great Lakes basin and celebrating the 50th anniversaries of the Clean Water Act and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement at its 2022 Annual Meeting,...
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Great Lakes HABs – A Regional Update
December 1 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm2022 Virtual Great Lakes PFAS Summit
December 5 - December 7