Published: May 27, 2013
Tags: biofuel, Great Lakes, The Water Council, water
A century ago, the seven-story brick building a few blocks from downtown was a factory — a symbol of an era when Milwaukee and other cities ringing the Great Lakes were industrial powerhouses churning out steel, automobiles and appliances. Eventually the region’s manufacturing core crumbled, and the structure became an all-but-forgotten warehouse.
Published: May 21, 2013
Tags: ballast, DNR, Great Lakes
The Legislature’s budget committee has voted to end ballast water discharge fees for Great Lakes shipping in two years.
Published: May 14, 2013
Tags: Great Lakes, phosphorus
A decades-old effort to nurse the battered Great Lakes to health has made progress toward reducing toxic pollution and slamming the door on invasive species, but the freshwater seas continue to face serious threats, a U.S.-Canadian agency said Tuesday.
Published: April 28, 2013
Tags: Army Corps of Engineers, Great Lakes, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan
A U.S.-Canadian panel urged both nations Friday to consider installing water retention structures to boost levels on Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, which fell to their lowest point on record in January and have lagged well below their historical average since the late 1990s.
Published: April 10, 2013
Tags: Great Lakes, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Obama
President Barack Obama’s proposed 2014 budget calls for keeping a wide-ranging Great Lakes cleanup program near its current funding level.
Published: April 1, 2013
Tags: Great Lakes, shipping, Water levels
Water levels on the Great Lakes are so low that shippers are being forced to leave as much as 15 percent of their cargo behind, said industry analysts who are working to find ways to alleviate the problem.
Published: March 7, 2013
Tags: EPA, Great Lakes, pollution
The effectiveness of a long-term plan to heal the ailing Great Lakes could be marred by federal spending cuts, which also could make it harder to cope with low water levels that threaten the region’s economy, local leaders say.
Published: March 6, 2013
Tags: Asian carp, Great Lakes, pollution, wetlands
The Obama administration says a billion-dollar campaign to improve the Great Lakes environment is paying off.
Published: March 6, 2013
Tags: Great Lakes, pollution
Advocates are lobbying Congress this week to protect a Great Lakes environmental program from across-the-board cuts that will hammer many federal programs unless a budget agreement is reached.
Published: January 28, 2013
Tags: Great Lakes, oil, pipeline
A petroleum refiner is exploring whether to build a crude oil loading dock on Lake Superior, near its refinery in Superior, Wis., to ship crude oil on the Great Lakes.
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