Echo
Great Lakes Month in Review: Tar sands, Great Lakes Day, water retail
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At the end of each month Current State checks in with Great Lakes commentator and journalist Gary Wilson for updates on environmental stories from around the Basin.
Water
Group hugs and campfire songs won’t solve Great Lakes problems in 2014
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Aggressive action is needed to tackle 2014 key Great Lakes decisions: What do we do about Lake Erie algae, Asian carp and water diversion?
Air
Great Lakes Month in Review: Algae blooms and Gov. Snyder’s record
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At the end of each month Current State check in with Great Lakes commentator and journalist Gary Wilson for updates on environmental stories from around the basin. Today’s Great Lakes Month in Review, focuses on Governor Snyder’s environmental efforts and algae blooms.
Water
Changing mindset is powerful solution for pollution
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Money, regulations and enforcement are necessary.
But that’s playing defense.
Industries, governments and environmental groups can get ahead of the game with new mindsets.
Wildlife
Month in Review: Icy waters and carp fatigue
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At the end of each month, Current State check in with Great Lakes commentator and journalist Gary Wilson for updates on environmental stories from around the basin. For this Great Lakes Month in Review, Gary focuses on ice cover and Asian carp fatigue. Wilson last spoke with Current State after the Army Corps’ study on Asian carp in the Great Lakes was released. Wilson says that carp fatigue has set in, meaning that Asian carp reports are in the news so frequently that people tend to tune it out. Great Lakes Month in Review: Ice cover, Asian carp and Federal funding by Great Lakes Echo
Wildlife
Illinois pols won’t back separation; environmental groups whiff on carp report
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Opportunities of this magnitude to protect the Great Lakes are rare and don’t last forever.
Water
Great Lakes year in review: Tar sands, governors’ summit, budget battles and Waukesha
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Great Lakes Echo commentator Gary Wilson looks back at some of the biggest Great Lakes stories of 2013.
Water
Marketing water: Spin, platitudes and tired phrases
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How do we talk about water?
Great Lakes water isn’t a Big Mac. Or a Budweiser. Or bottled water.
We need talking points that inspire.
Echo
Don’t let myth-making distort Great Lakes progress
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Gary Wilson takes a look at some of the common myths surrounding the Great Lakes and how they have come to be perceived as realities.
Water
IJC algae action, Waukesha request, fracking worries
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Each month Echo commentator Gary Wilson recaps news from around the basin.
This week, Gary reflects on Great Lakes Week, the International Joint Commission’s recommendations to fight algal blooms and water use in fracking.