Coalition Sees Damage to Great Lakes Growing
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Sep. 23--CLEVELAND -- Problems on the Great Lakes are approaching the tipping point and environmentalists need to intensify their push for Congress to fund restoration efforts on the lakes.
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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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For Jay Austin, who has made a career of studying the Great Lakes, the warming climate around Lake Superior is no mystery. But he was surprised to find the waters of the lake itself warming even more rapidly.
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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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CHICAGO, June 7  /PRNewswire/ -- MWW Group (http://www.mww.com/), one of the nation's top 10 public relations firms, today announced its work with the Council of Great Lakes Governors.  The Council is a cooperative, non-partisan effort between the public and private sectors of the eight U.S.
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The Great Lakes region, which has paid Africa&#39;s highest price in human lives and destruction from ethnic conflict, could soon be plunged again into wholesale war as a result of the recent massacre of 160 Congolese Tutsis in Burundi by Hutu militias.
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By Daniel Thigpen, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  May 31--ACAMPO -- It will take increased collaboration from landowners, farmers and the government to save the ailing Delta, U.S. Rep.
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Foreign ministers from Africa&#39;s Great Lakes nations gathered Sunday to discuss regional insecurity following weeks of fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo&#39;s eastern region.
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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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Storm damage from waves and death of vital algae likely to become more common, report warns
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President Bush's proposed budget would shortchange efforts to clean up the Great Lakes and prevent the worsening of problems such as sewage overflows and exotic species invasions, critics said Wednesday.
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By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 13--Minnesota could become the first state to commit to a common set of standards protecting Great Lakes water under a measure backed Monday in the state Senate.   An agreement called the Great Lakes-St.
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Protection of fresh water needs prompt clarification and strengthening in the United States.
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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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A far reaching consultation into plans to upgrade flood protection across the country is to be unveiled.
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Americans were cautioned about eating fish from more than one-third of U.S. lakes and nearly one-fourth of its rivers last year due to pollution from mercury and other chemicals, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday.
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By KEVIN MILLER; OF THE NEWS STAFF  Diplomats and biologists from more than a dozen countries will gather in Bar Harbor next week for the annual meeting of the international coalition that helps set global policies on conserving wild Atlantic salmon.