Hands off Great Lakes
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As an environmentalist with more than 30 years of activism under my belt, I am generally not vulnerable to complacency. But if there is any area of environmental concern I tend to feel is well in hand it is the Great Lakes.
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By The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Mar. 10--The state is right to take no chances with the well-being of Lake Erie's population of yellow perch.
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Bush administration proposes development-friendly policies that it says will protect fish. Environmentalists are outraged. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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As water levels in the Great Lakes fall, ships that ferry bulk materials across them must lighten their loads, adding millions to shipping companiesâ operating costs.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday it is dropping plans to conduct live-fire machine gun practice in 34 zones in the Great Lakes, yielding to widespread complaints about dangers to the environment and humans alike.
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By Glen Warchol, The Salt Lake Tribune  Jan. 30--The growing demand for open space in Salt Lake's suburbs is  driving a bill through the Legislature that would give immunity from lawsuits  to cities and the owners of canals and ditches if a jogger or bicyclist is  injured.
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By JULIE CARR SMYTH  COLUMBUS, Ohio  - Concern about Ohio's power under a water-rights agreement with fellow Great Lakes states and Canada has stalled the measure's adoption at the statehouse.
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The United States and Canada signed a declaration on Friday that outlines a plan to clean up the Great Lakes and the major waterways that feed them.
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By Paul Snyder  And the ball is rolling.   The Minnesota Legislature became the first of the eight Great Lakes states to pass the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact into law.   State Rep.
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By Andrew L. Wang, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 14--Worried employees of a plant on Waukegan Harbor turned out by the dozens Wednesday night to vent their frustrations and try to get answers about a dredging project that could mean the elimination of their jobs.
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By Detroit Free Press  Sep. 22--Congress continues to largely dismiss the concerns of the Great Lakes as it heads toward adjournment at the end of next week.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that it has withdrawn a proposal to conduct target practice with machine guns in 34 zones in the Great Lakes.
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A coalition of environmental and conservation groups calls for a ban on the damaging fishing practice known as bottom-trawling.
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By Detroit Free Press  Feb. 4--Biological pollution is forever.   Sea lampreys need to be beaten back every year, decades after they first swam into the Great Lakes via the Erie Canal.
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Dec. 11--A federal grant will revamp off-road trails at Finger Lakes State Park to keep riders out of a polluted stream on the land.
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The mayor of Duluth, Minn., says he is outraged two U.S. Coast Guard vessels fired machine guns at a floating target on Lake Superior near the city.  Herb Bergson says he was told no training exercises would be held until an extended public comment period was completed in November.
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A move to ban saltwater ships from the Great Lakes, at least temporarily, got a boost this week. Ninety organizations asked for a moratorium on such shipping until Congress enacts meaningful laws to stop the continuing influx of harmful invasive species.