Echo
Great Lakes lawmakers consider statewide bans on pavement sealants
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Researchers say that run off from pavement with coal-tar sealers can threaten aquatic life and are considered a possible health threat to people.
Some local bans are already in place.
Echo
Group fights Maumee River sediment polluting Lake Erie
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Stretching 130 miles from Fort Wayne to Toledo, the Maumee River drains 8,000 square miles, the largest watershed in the Great Lakes region. A volunteer non-profit cleanup crew is addressing a potpourri of river pollution.
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Third of candidates on conservation group’s Dirty Dozen lists from Great Lakes states
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Two “Dirty Dozen” lists identify 12 federal and 12 state-level candidates that the League of Conservation voters say have the worst environmental records in close races around the country.
Echo
Photo Friday: The vanishing waters of Georgian Bay
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David Foote, who submitted these images, has a house in the Skerryvore community along the Georgian Bay, south of Pointe au Baril, Ontario and North of Parry Sound. The following pictures were taken in late October around the Skerryvore community. According to Foote, the area will match record water level lows set in 1964, by mid November. You can read more on the falling water levels of the Georgian Bay here.
Photos by David Foote
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Skerryvore is on the eastern edge of Lake Huron’s Georgian Bay. Explore the map below to get a closer look.
Echo
Dog passes island sniff test
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Click this image for WZZM’s broadcast on using dogs to track down illegal sewage discharges. The setting is a recent Great Lakes Beach Association conference on Mackinac Island. That’s a smart dog and a smart way to track down pollution. Perhaps most impressive: The dog didn’t give the island’s road apples a second look.
Recreation
Hurricane worries Great Lakes captains, excites surfers
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The convergence of the hurricane and two other weather systems has most Great Lakes freighters staying in port. But surfers are eagerly hitting the waves as they build hundreds of miles from the center of the storm.
Wildlife
Researchers strive to restore beetle that raises its own young
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Scientists are using small, dead animals to trap the endangered American burying beetles. They are raising the beetles in Ohio and introducing them into forests. Other researchers are looking for them in Michigan.
Echo
WhadayaKnow? What percentage of meat in the U.S. comes from family farms?
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This week Echo reporters asked the public and an expert to estimate what percentage of meat in the U.S. comes from family farms.
