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 Subscribe to feedPending Michigan bill seeks to curb septic waste seeping into land, water Water level plan is widely endorsed |
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Great Lakes Echo (2/1) Michigan municipal waste facilities would be required to accept all septic waste produced within 25 miles under a bill awaiting action in the Senate. Water level plan is widely endorsed The Recorder And Times (1/31) A draft plan to control water levels in Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River earned the wide support of Canadian and U.S. groups after Monday's release of the report by the International Joint Commission (IJC). International plan to govern Lake Ontario levels Wall Street Journal (1/30) A new plan for controlling Lake Ontario water levels is intended to restore diversity among shoreline plants and animals by permitting greater fluctuations, a U.S.-Canadian treaty organization said Monday. Great Lakes, Seaway under threat from pleasure boats: security report The Vancouver Sun (1/22) A new report concludes Canada has no coherent strategy for dealing with a growing national security threat posed by small boats in high-traffic border regions. COMMENTARY: Conceptualizing a Great Lakes commons The Ashland Current (1/20) Slowly over the past 50 years or so the perception of the Great Lakes has changed—at least among most thoughtful people—from limitless, exploitable resource to finite, fragile ecosystem. Unfortunately, problems persist, threats proliferate, most of the safeguards are reactive, and, with climate change and environmentally careless legislatures, the lakes may be threatened as never before. New program to protect water quality; details to be worked out Minnesota Public Radio (1/17) Top officials from the Obama administration came to Minnesota Tuesday to announce a new program to encourage farmers to do more to protect water quality. |
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