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The Value of Water

Henry Henderson | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Asian Carp, Lake Michigan, Nrdc, Invasive Species, Pollution, Chicago River, Chicago River Sewage, Natural Resources Defense Council, Atrazine, Water Pollution, Water, Chicago, Great Lakes, Privatization, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Ballast-Water, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

The water rich communities of the Great Lakes region do not understand the nature and value of their most precious resource.

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Heading to Rhode Island Tomorrow in Support of a National Oceans Policy

Sarah Chasis | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Ocean Policy Taskforce, Economy, Atlantic Ocean, Obama Administration, Offshore Wind, Rhode Island, Whales, Healthy Oceans Policy, Offshore Renewables, Healthy Oceans, Great Lakes, New York Obama, Marine Spatial Planning, National Oceans Policy, Oceans, Fisheries, Providence, Green News
Sarah Chasis

A national ocean policy will help New York, the East Coast and the entire country better address all of these issues that affect its ocean and its Great Lakes resources.

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Great Lakes Toxic Cleanup Decades Behind Schedule

AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Great Lakes, Great Lakes Cleanup, Great Lakes Toxic Cleanup, Great Lakes Toxic Sites, Great Lakes Pollution, Polluted Lakes, Chicago News

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Cleanup of the most polluted sites in the Great Lakes is moving so slowly it will take 77 more years to finish the job at...

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Fish Fence is a Shocking Failure: Is it Time to Zip up the Great Lakes?

Henry Henderson | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Invasive Species, Asian Carp, Mississippi River, Lake Michigan, Illinois River, Chicago Diversion, Great Lakes, Cal-Sag Channel, Great Lakes Fish Fence, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

The only thing protecting Lake Michigan from the menace of a voracious invading predator that all agree will decimate the ecosystem is a quirky Rube Goldberg contraption.

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Obama Announces Ocean Protection Plan

Sarah Chasis | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, Healthy Oceans, President Obama, Pew Oceans Commission, Oceans, National Healthy Oceans Policy, Marine Spatial Planning, Great Lakes, Green News
Sarah Chasis

The US needs a comprehensive policy to protect our ocean, coasts and Great Lakes today and for future generations. Right now, our oceans are governed by over 140 laws and 20 different agencies.

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Obama Taps Cameron Davis As Great Lakes Czar

AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 07.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Environment, Obama Great Lakes Czar, Obama Great Lakes, Cameron Davis, Great Lakes, Chicago News

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Cameron Davis, leader of a Chicago-based environmentalist group, has been appointed to oversee President Barack Obama's i...

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Obama Wants $475 Million For Great Lakes Cleanup

AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 06.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Great Lakes, Great Lakes Cleanup, Great Lakes Restoration, Obama Great Lakes, Obama Budget, Chicago News

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A budget proposal from the Obama administration would spend $475 million on beach cleanups, wetlands restoration and remo...

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Great Lakes Not Losing Billions Of Gallons Of Water: Study

AP | Posted 06.01.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Lake Huron, St. Clair River, Lake Michigan, Great Lakes Water, Lake Michigan Water Levels, Great Lakes, Chicago News

DETROIT (AP) -- An engineering study says Lake Michigan and Lake Huron aren't losing billions of gallons of extra water daily through an artificially ...

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A Day Without Water?

Debra Shore | Posted 04.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Lake Michigan Water, Water Conservation, World Water Day, Mwrd, Great Lakes, Water, Green Living, Chicago News
Debra Shore

Our dependence on water links us with much of the rest of creation. So why are we so cavalier about the single element upon which our lives utterly depend?

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Throwing Wolves to the Wolves

Michael Markarian | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wolves, Gray Wolves Endangered Species List, Rahm Emanuel, Animals, Endangered Species Act, Great Lakes, Oregon, Politics News
Michael Markarian

Should gray wolves be stripped from the Endangered Species list, they would be subjected to widespread killings at the hands of hostile state wildlife agencies.

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River Reversal: Chicago's Special Anniversary

Debra Shore | Posted 02.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Mwrd, Asian Carp, Chicago River, Water Use, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Water, Chicago Rain Barrels, Chicago Water Supply, Great Lakes Compact, Chicago News
Debra Shore

For Chicago and our region to have a robust economy - and a healthy ecology - for the 21st century, we will be asked to embrace a new paradigm, that of stewardship.

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Great Lakes Protection Treaty Takes Effect

AP | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Environment, Great Lakes Compact, Great Lakes Treaty, Great Lakes Cleanup, Great Lakes Preservation, Great Lakes, Chicago News

A multistate treaty to limit use of Great Lakes water goes into effect Monday. The Great Lakes Compact generally bars large-scale, long-distance with...

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Aqua Fina or Aqua Finite?

Karen Dionne | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Tony Clarke, Great Lakes Compact, St. Ignace, Japan, Novel, Lake Erie, Blue Gold, Water, Michigan, Great Lakes, Environment, Bottled Water Industry, Colorado River, Lake Superior, Freezing Point, Maude Barlow, Ogallala Aquifer, Bottled Water, Green News
Karen Dionne

Recently, governors and legislatures... approved the Great Lakes Compact, a landmark agreement that bans the sale and diversion of water outside the region.

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Great Lakes Become Campaign Issue

AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 11.17.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Barack Obama Great Lakes, Great Lakes, Environment, Great Lakes Cleanup, Great Lakes Preservation, John McCain Great Lakes, Chicago News

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The Great Lakes are ailing, scientists warn, on the verge of ecological ruin from big-city sewage and invasive species. P...

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Great Lakes (Almost) Protected

Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 10.25.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Great Lakes Cleanup, Congress Great Lakes Bill, Great Lakes Preservation, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Compact, Water Conservation, Chicago News

The Great Lakes account for about 20 percent of the world's surface freshwater and 84 percent of North America's, and the region has extraordinary pol...

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Obama Proposes $5 Billion Trust Fund For Great Lakes

AP | John Flesher | Posted 10.17.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Obama Great Lakes Fund, Obama Great Lakes Trust Fund, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Cleanup, Great Lakes Preservation, Obama Great Lakes, Barack Obama, Obama Great Lakes Plan, Chicago News

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Sen. Barack Obama will propose a $5 billion trust fund for Great Lakes cleanup and restoration if elected president, his ...

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America's Metros -- Winners... and Nonwinners

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 09.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Green Jobs, Energy Policy, John McCain, Metro Area, Gulf of Mexico, Great Lakes, America, Barack Obama, Green Energy, Mccain Nuclear Power, Business News
John Tepper Marlin

Oil prices tripled since 2003. Sunshine for the economies of metro areas on the Gulf of Mexico, but a cloud over the metros on the Great Lakes.

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