U.S. House to Hold Hearing on Great Lakes Restoration
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News Advisory:   -- U.S. House to Hold Hearing on Great Lakes Restoration   -- 'Lakes Nearing Tipping Point, Action Needed Now,' Scientist to Tell Congressional Subcommittee   What: One of Michigan's leading scientists will testify at a U.S.
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TRAVERSE CITY -- President George W. Bush took the occasion of a boisterous re-election rally Monday in Traverse City to pledge his protection of Great Lakes water.
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By Erica Curless, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Mar. 7--Hundreds of people are expected to attend Thursday's public hearing on a gated housing development overlooking Hayden Lake that could include a 36-slip community dock.
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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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Renewing a five-year bowhead whale quota for Alaska native communities that rely on subsistence whaling is crucial, a U.S. senator said Monday at opening of the International Whaling Commission meeting.
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The U.S. Congress comes back to town  next week to sift through the pieces of the latest oil patch  disaster -- pipeline corrosion that threatened to shut down the  giant Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska.
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By MICHAEL OLIVEIRA  TORONTO (CP) - A bill to protect Great Lakes water from being sold or shipped across the continent passed its final hurdle in the Ontario legislature Thursday, as all three parties voted unanimously to pass it into law.
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A comprehensive plan to tackle the Great Lakes' most pressing environmental problems &#151; from invasive species to sewage overflows &#151; is on track despite complaints about inadequate federal funding, an Environmental Protection Agency official said.
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 6--The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' approach to cover some of the polluted sediments in the $400 million cleanup of the Fox River in northeastern Wisconsin got support Tuesday from a national, non-partisan scientific panel.
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An environmental coalition is calling for a halt on international ships entering the U.S. Great Lakes.
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Congress was poised to pass a bill Saturday to revamp management of the nation's marine fisheries and strengthen protections against overfishing of dwindling stocks.
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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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A senior U.S. lawmaker said on  Friday that he would hold a hearing on whether President George  W. Bush had undermined a new law designed to promote divestment  from Sudan by expressing reservations about it as he signed it.
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The U.S. Forest Service will be gathering public comment this week on several rivers in Utah, Wasatch and Summit counties that have been proposed to be included in the National Wild and Scenic River system.
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By Dori Berman  Lawmakers hoping to improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay have proposed assessing a fee on all new construction to create a dedicated funding source for bay cleanup programs.
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Federal officials are considering releasing a large amount of water from the Glen Canyon Dam into the Grand Canyon early next year in an effort to rebuild beaches and aid endangered fish.
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Environmental activists, hunters and oil industry representatives spoke at a public hearing Monday night on whether the U.S. government should list polar bears as a threatened species.