More Great Lakes residents in the U.S. and Canada think the Great Lakes are in bad shape than those who think they’re in good shape according to a poll by the Great Lakes Water Quality Board. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Indigenous communities in the Great Lakes have been hand harvesting wild rice for more than a thousand years. Now, it’s mostly gone. However, there are efforts from tribes to restore rice beds and bring more recognition to the grain in Michigan. Read a …
After repeated air pollution violations at its northwest Indiana refinery along Lake Michigan, BP must pay $512,450 in penalties to resolve a lawsuit filed by environmental organizations. Read the full story by the Indy Star.
A time-critical removal action at the former fire training area of the Wurtsmith Air Force Base in northeast Michigan entailed 24,780 tons of PFAS-impacted soil being hauled away from the site. Read the full story by Iosco County News-Herald.
A group pushing hard to clean up Lake Erie will now be dropping out of a federal lawsuit as they don’t think the lawsuit is the answer to cure the lake’s algae issues. Read the full story by WTVG-TV – Toledo, OH.
Stranded between its last and next Coast Guard cutters, Duluth-Superior Twin Ports will be reliant on a temporary plan for breaking ice in 2021-22 since their cutter departed for a year of maintenance in July. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tri …
Ontario Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk says the province owes the public more details — and sooner — about pollution spills like the 24-billion-litre leak of sewage into Hamilton’s Chedoke Creek which empties into Cootes Paradise on Lake Ontario. Read th …
Erie City Council in northern Pennsylvania, voted no on a plan to use tax payer dollars to pay for storm water management. Read and view the full story by WJET-TV – Erie, Pennsylvania.
The Lake Erie walleye fishing community is raising money for kids in treatment for cancer at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital. Read and view the full story by WKYC-TV – North Ridgeville, OH.
Work has wrapped up on the restoration of the North Sandy Pond barrier bar, a $600,000 project awarded to the town of Sandy Creek in Oswego County. Read the full story by The Central New York Business Journal.
Great Lakes temperatures have been higher than the long-term average since the summer, and in some cases, even longer. Long-term high lake temperatures may have negative repercussions which ultimately harm fish and wildlife and in turn disrupt Michigan …
Beyond telling us about the region’s history, the presence of coral fossils in the Great Lakes also enables us to obtain several of our natural resources today, such as salts, oils, and natural gas. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
A seawall near a dock site in Detroit, Michigan, that collapsed two years ago gave way Friday, spilling an unknown amount of soil into the Detroit River, according to state environmental officials. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer abandoned a lawsuit Tuesday aimed at shutting down an oil pipeline that runs through part of the Great Lakes but said the state would continue pursuing a separate case with the same goal. Read the full story by WHEC-T …
A towering sand dune at the Indiana Dunes National Park in Porter, Indiana, has kept up its inland creep, covering up an access road and threatening to bury a parking lot in the coming years. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
In Michigan, the Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance plans to provide updates on its three-pronged legal strategy to stop the proposed NorthShore of Saugatuck boat canal. Read the full story by MLive.
Officials are seeking input from local boaters on changing water levels on the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. The International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board has issued surveys for recreational boaters regarding fall water levels and end- …
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos announced the completion of the restoration of the North Sandy Pond barrier bar, a $600,000 project awarded to the town of Sandy Creek as part of the state’s Resiliency a …
On Dec. 7, the Ohio Supreme Court will hear an appeal from two Bratenahl residents against the Ohio Power Siting Board that argue a state board should not have granted a certificate that will allow construction of the Icebreaker wind project on Lake Er …
The Rouse Simmons sank on November 23, 1912, off the coast of Lake Michigan and is one of the 39 known ships in the proposed Lake Michigan National Marine Sanctuary. The Wisconsin Maritime Museum will host its annual Christmas Tree Ship Day this Saturd …