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Waukesha “full speed ahead” in drawing water from Great Lakes
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Waukesha lies outside the Great Lakes basin, but it has received permission to take water from Lake Michigan.
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Waukesha lies outside the Great Lakes basin, but it has received permission to take water from Lake Michigan.
In the old days, shipyards would shut down and workers retire to Florida for the season. Not so, anymore.
Gary Wilson talks with Current State about the month in Great Lakes news.
The report cites some significant progress such as improving wetlands and restoring contaminated areas.
Environmental groups are criticizing changes to climate change information on the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources website and worry that this is a preview of the Trump administration.
Lake Ontario homeowners fear new regulations will mean more flooding.
The latest from Mr. Great Lakes.
A new study from Rochester Institute of Technology tracks how much plastic is getting into the Great Lakes.
The United States and Canada are moving to ban microbeads — the tiny plastic bits in toothpaste and facewash that are big water polluters. Now scientists are focusing on a similar problem — and it’s lurking in your laundry pile.
As ice forms on Lake Erie, it creates problems for the huge hydro-electric power plants downstream. To keep electricity flowing to millions of residents in the Northeast U.S. and Canada, power companies rig up a contraption called an ice boom.