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The law and the Great Lakes: Respect for the value of conflict
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Can we collaborate our way to a better environmental quality of life?
Someone needs to watch the watchers.
When collaboration and negotiation fail, legal action is the recourse
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Stop blaming the Army Corps of Engineers
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The Army Corps of Engineers is a convenient scapegoat but it’s only a small part of a broader federal let down on the Asian carp issue.
Meanwhile, things are heating up with the Waukesha, Wis., request to divert Lake Michigan water. Is the request for an expanded service area a red flag?
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International Great Lakes executive: Raise your voice
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Most people have never read the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, let alone know who should be holding governments accountable to implementing it. So read it. And do your job as government watchdog.
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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.
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Clean beaches and water free from sewage: It’s up to us
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A dense population stresses Lake Michigan’s nearshore ecosystem.
Legislation to end sewage pollution highlights the issue, but fails to gain Congressional support.
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Great Lakes restoration: Beyond the money
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Make no mistake, there have been real accomplishments in Great Lakes restoration.
Now we face a financial and political environment that’s less friendly to spending of any sort let alone environmental projects.
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Pet projects won’t restore the Great Lakes
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Is yet another round of spending on an already restored artificial peninsula in Chicago the proper use for Great Lakes Restoration funds?
One thing you know when you live in Chicago, the city tends to get what it wants, protocol and prudence be damned.
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The Great Lakes: Drowning in a sea of studies?
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The Great Lakes has plenty of studies underway.
And certainly there are plenty of research groups.
But just how well are the lakes really served by the scientific community?
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Michigan’s Gov. Snyder: Great Lakes protector or placeholder?
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Michigan governor’s support of sand dune bill is troubling and contrary to bipartisan tradition of protection.
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Obama team’s Asian Carp response: By the book
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The Obama administration’s Asian carp response team updated the public on how it’s stopping the voracious fish that threaten the Great Lakes.
It was a dull party for a meeting at ground zero of the carp crisis.