Nearshore
Detroit’s Water Renaissance: New shorelines, old problems on the Detroit River
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Water attracted early settlers to Detroit and water fueled its growth. Now it’s an important asset to the city’s recovery.
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Echo
Energy debates play out on the Great Lakes nearshore
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The Detroit to Cleveland corridor has one of the region’s most densely populated shorelines.
All those people and the area’s myriad of water, habitat, farm and beach issues make it home to some of the nation’s greatest energy debates.
Echo
Where’s the Concern? Week Thirteen
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Each week, Great Lakes Echo features a photo story about a different Area of Concern designated by the U.S. or Canadian governments in the Great Lakes basin. Guess where the area is located, based on the description of the site.
Investing in Detroit pays Great (Lakes) dividends
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Let’s invest a significant amount of Great Lakes restoration funding in Detroit and the Detroit River. The whole region suffers if Detroit languishes.
It’s an investment that makes more sense than pouring yet more funds into the region’s most economically advantaged cities.
Echo
Path to Great Lakes protection: Tax the polluters
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Can pollution be a revenue stream?
Taxing externalities can appeal to both ends of the political spectrum.
And it brings the focus on prevention – the cheapest way to protect the Great Lakes.
Echo
Runoff harms Duluth’s trout streams, Great Lakes water quality
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Every spring people sweep sidewalks of winter sand and salt and into the streets of Duluth.
Rain carries it to the sewer where it can drain untreated into the city’s many urban streams, and eventually into Lake Superior.
Egregious Ohio water law takes backseat at Great Lakes Week
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The state’s weak water conservation law was the elephant in the room never adequately addressed.
And yet it undermines what may be the Great Lakes community’s biggest accomplishment.
Echo
Timetable for mercury standards disputed by utility companies
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Environmental advocates urge legislators to support the federal mercury and air toxic standards, but the electric utility industry say that would create a huge burden.
Teach a child to fish and, well, you know the rest
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By Patrick Lyons
Capital News Service
LANSING – Project FISH is focused on teaching a new generation of anglers, hoping to reverse the decline of Michigan fishing license sales. The project teaches water ecology, fishing techniques, rules and ethics of fishing and other skills like cleaning and cooking. A Project FISH – Friends Involved in Sportsfishing Heritage – workshop will be held March 6-7 in East Lansing. Project FISH was started in 1995 by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Michigan United Conservation Clubs and the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, said Mark Stephens, the education program coordinator. Since then the program has spread to 37 other states.
Echo
More U.P. mining in Michigan’s U.P. worries enviros
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A renewed interest in mining in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula could provide funding for state parks and boost local economies but could hurt the environment.