[dailynews] November 28, 2012

Great Lakes Daily News: November 28, 2012
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Great Lakes filled with plastic bits
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The world’s largest freshwater ecosystem is added to the list of natural places filled with massive swirls of plastic pollution. Source: Discovery News (11/28)


Environmental scientist uses art to communicate Great Lakes issues
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A University of Michigan ecosystem scientist, Sara Adlerstein González, is displaying some of her work at a Michigan art show called Water Blues. Source: Great Lakes Echo (11/28)


Gov. Snyder's plan calls for increase in natural gas production
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Gov. Rick Snyder released an energy and environmental policy blueprint that calls for increasing production of natural gas in Michigan. Source: The Detroit News (11/28)


As Great Lakes plummet, towns try to save harbors
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Easy access to Lake Michigan has made Onekama in Michigan a popular place for summer visitors and a refuge for boaters. Now the community itself needs a rescue, from slumping lake levels that threaten its precious link to open water. Source: Wall Street Journal (11/27)


Dogs may threaten beach health, water supply
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According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the 78 million dogs in the United States create 10 million tons of feces annually, polluting waterways and posing a threat to public health. Source: Great Lakes Echo (11/27)


Round goby, an invasive fish, appears to be making way up Rouge River
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The nonprofit group Friends of the Rouge found more than a dozen round goby while sampling sections of the Lower Rouge River in southeast Michigan. Source: The Republic (11/27)


Wolverine, We Energies will clean up U.P. coal plant, keep it running
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We Energies' coal-fired power plant in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula will remain open and be equipped with modern pollution controls. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (11/27)


DEC issues final water withdrawal regulations
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New York's waters and the Great Lakes will be better protected by regulations requiring a state permit for the withdrawal of large volumes of the state’s water. Source: WBNG News (11/27)


Tribal commission issues, then cancels night deer hunting permit
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A member of the Mole Lake band of Chippewa received a permit for night deer hunting in the ceded territory of northern Wisconsin, but the permit was later canceled by the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (11/27)


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