In the News EPA seeks to reduce ship pollution on Great Lakes Duluth News Tribune (7/2) The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed new regulations on smokestack pollution from ships, demanding lower-sulfur fuel and more efficient engines from the maritime industry.
Zebra mussels infest Pike Lake Duluth News Tribune (7/2) Zebra mussels have been found in Pike Lake outside Duluth, the first confirmed outbreak in a Northeastern Minnesota waterway outside Lake Superior.
Teams targeting poison in the River Raisin Detroit Free Press (7/2) Michigan has more PCB-contaminated hot spots than any other Great Lakes state. And the River Raisin's short stretch is one of the worst. Using money Congress authorized specifically to clean up the Great Lakes, a major federal cleanup is scheduled to start within a year.
Dirty birds: Gulls making a big mess at South Pier Sheboygan Press (7/2) South Pier District business owners in Sheboygan, Wis., say they have a mess on their hands, as hordes of gulls have moved into the area and quickly turned one of the city's most popular summer destinations along Lake Michigan into one big avian commode.
Water trail ready for paddlers The Chronicle-Telegram (7/2) This week’s official opening of the 27-mile Vermilion-Lorain Water Trail — which stretches from the Vermilion River Reservation along the shoreline of Lake Erie to Lorain and up the Black River to Elyria — should thrill Ohio's growing number of canoeists and kayakers.
Sale of land would allow extension of Lake Ontario boardwalk Northumberland Today (7/2) A west beach property owner is offering to sell a strip of lakefront land to the Town of Cobourg, Ont., so the boardwalk can be completed from the marina area westward. If purchased, the area the public could use along Lake Ontario would be extended.
A new Soo lock, maybe Detroit Free Press (7/1) All the dignitaries at Tuesday's groundbreaking for a new Soo lock expressed high hopes that this really did mark the start of continuous construction that would see the project finished in the next seven to ten years.
Ohio EPA, Northeast Ohio Sewer District disagree about source of oil that killed gulls The Plain Dealer (7/1) An Ohio Environmental Protection Agency investigator trying to find out who killed more than 500 gulls last month by dumping hundreds of gallons of oil into the Cuyahoga River is focusing on a nine-mile-long storm sewer network that flows from Shaker Heights to Cleveland and the river.
New York inches closer to offshore wind farm Reuters (7/1) New York is gauging interest in building a wind farm 13 miles off the New York city coast that could end up being the largest such project in the United States. New York's state power authority said it had also selected five firms to study the possibility of building an offshore wind farm on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario in western New York.
New public hearings on Great Lakes water levels Examiner.com Milwaukee (7/1) Those leading a controversial study on low water levels in Lakes Michigan and Huron have given in to pressure to add two public hearings in Wisconsin. The study board had scheduled 14 public hearings with only one held along the western shore of Lake Michigan or in the Upper Peninsula.