A new report says cleaning up some of the Great Lakes region's most heavily polluted areas has led to billions of dollars' worth of economic development and brought residents closer together.

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Rapidly rising water levels in the Great Lakes are damaging shorelines and leading to uncertainty for lakeshore residents.

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Five Democratic governors of states in the Great Lakes region on Monday called on candidates seeking to be part of the presidential election next year to support a plan meant to protect their shared waters by boosting federal spending on treatment plants and environmental cleanups.

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U.S. states and Canadian provinces have endorsed a plan to build up defenses on an Illinois waterway in hopes of keeping invasive Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes.

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Water levels in two of the Great Lakes are the highest ever recorded.

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The eight states and two Canadian provinces in the Great Lakes region have agreed to cooperate on enforcing invasive species laws.

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A group representing mayors of cities in the Great Lakes region wants to fortify an Illinois waterway to prevent Asian carp from invading Lake Michigan.

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Wet spring weather has pushed Lake Erie's water level to its highest point ever recorded.

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A Detroit provider of drinking-water and wastewater-treatment services says it has surpassed federal and state regulators' goal for reducing phosphorus levels.

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The University of Wisconsin-Superior is running the only Great Lakes center that's on land and tests the technologies designed to prevent invasive species from being spread in ships' ballast water.

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