How do we know? Well, you’re reading the Great Lakes Echo. And Chicago-based Valerie Denney Communications just named Echo one of the top places to follow Great Lakes restoration.
Pretty good for less than two months on the web. Not that we’re getting a big head about it. The other sources of Great Lakes regional news listed here put us in with pretty good company. Check them out.
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By Theresa Gasinski, gasinsk1@msu.edu
Great Lakes Echo
May 21, 2009
The Michigan Legislature may soon create a fund to loan schools money to build windmills, solar panels or other sources of alternative energy.
Elsewhere in the Great Lakes region, lawmakers in Illinois and New York have introduced similar legislation.
Some ideas within the Michigan bills to integrate wind energy into schools were written by Cory Connolly, an international relations junior at Michigan State University. Connolly is senior fellow for energy and the environment at the MSU Roosevelt Institution, a public policy research group that …
By Jeff Gillies, gilliesj@msu.edu
Great Lakes Echo
May 19, 2009
In the alphabet soup of Great Lakes contaminants, PCBs, PCDDs and PBDEs usually rule the broth.
But in a recent study, Canadian scientists took a closer look at another noodle.
They examined a group of seldom-studied, dioxin-like contaminants called polychlorinated naphthalenes, or PCNs. These chemicals can have toxic effects including chloracne and liver damage.
And although industry abandoned their use 30 years ago, the researchers still found the chemicals in lake trout collected from Lake Ontario from 1979 and 2004.
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By Allison Bush, bushalli@msu.edu
Great Lakes Echo
May 14, 2009
Regional environmental and economic groups on Thursday urged Congress to quickly approve President Barack Obama’s proposed allocation of $475 million to restore and protect the Great Lakes.
“This initiative, from our perspective, is the exact priorities the Great Lakes need, and the right amount,” said Andy Buchsbaum, co-chair of Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition.
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In July, East Lansing will get a new, open-air farmer’s market that will enable consumers to more easily buy Michigan produce and products, including those that are locally grown.
Scientists have found another promising weapon in the battle against sea lampreys, strong evidence that they may win the war against one of the Great Lakes’ most infamous invaders.
Researchers at Michigan State University have begun field tests on a chemical compound that tricks the lampreys and lures them into traps.
Some of the Great Lakes’ worst mercury emitters may have to put a lid on it as federal regulators recently moved for the first time to cap emissions of the toxic metal from the nation’s cement plants.
Airborne mercury falls into lakes and contaminates fish. Eating too much mercury-laced fish can cause brain and kidney damage, especially in young children.
A mid-Michigan wastewater treatment plant worker once discovered what happens when a sewage digester gets an upset stomach.
“He sat down to have a cup of coffee and he looked at the window and it was black,” said Jeff Ranes, manager of the Delhi Township plant near Lansing. “That thing actually blew its seal around the lid.”
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