(MI) The Associated Press - After nearly four decades as a fishing guide on the Great Lakes, Pat Chrysler has seen enough damage from invasive species to fear what giant, ravenous Asian carp could do to the nation’s largest bodies of freshwater.

By Jordan Travis
Dec. 11, 2009
LANSING, Mich. – Any Michigan business hoping to claim a fifth advanced battery manufacturing tax credit will have until March 31, 2010, if Sen. Gerald Van Woerkom, R-Norton Shores, gets his way.
The lawmaker introduced a bill that would extend the deadline to apply for a credit of up to $25 million per year for four years. The bill, he said, was written with fortu PowerCell GmbH, a German battery manufacturing company, in mind.

(ON) The Globe and Mail - Do you care if your sausage never had a chance to squeal? It’s a question green-minded grocery shoppers may one day be faced with if a group of researchers in the Netherlands figures out how to exercise the test-tube-grown pork they’ve got lazing around in petri dishes so the meat will toughen up – and taste – as though it had been raised on a farm.

(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - A Milwaukee Common Council committee called Wednesday for the city to formally declare its interest in selling water to Waukesha.

(MI) Detroit Free Press - Michigan hunters would be able to take aim at a new big-game species — moose — under legislation introduced in the state Senate on Wednesday.

By HYONHEE SHIN
Dec. 10, 2009

LANSING, Mich. – A Michigan lawmaker wants to phase out the use of a controversial fire retardant used in electronics and home furnishings.

Soil scientists say deca-BDE and two related fire retardants are toxic, persistent and bioaccumulative. They build up in fish and water and can harm the human body and breast milk, as well as water quality.

(MI) Detroit Free Press - State and federal agencies hunting for Asian carp have reopened a critical lock leading to Lake Michigan that was closed last week, after failing to find any Asian carp there.

(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Federal officials reported late Tuesday that a large-scale netting operation on a Chicago-area waterway above the electric fish barrier has yielded no Asian carp.

(MI) Bay City Times – A package of bills that would allow the Saganing Eagles Landing Casino to tap into the Saginaw-Midland water supply has been sent to the governor for approval.

(MI) Detroit Free Press - Despite a $10-million cleanup of PCB contamination in St. Clair Shores, new tests show higher-than-ever levels of the chemical in a drain and several canals.