Wednesday, July 16, 2025
EPA Releases Plan for Great Lakes
Over the weekend, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson released an action plan to guide the Obama Administration’s historic efforts to restore the…
Great Lakes
Quebec’s Blue Gold
Seasonal storage of floodwaters from three unexploited rivers that flow into James Bay and the channelling of this water to the Ottawa River could provide…
To Restore and Protect
At precisely 2:30 p.m. in Cornwall, Ontario, the audience at the 16th Annual International Conference on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River Ecosystem was…
Interview: Dr. Joe MacInnis
“Water has been my life in a different way than for most people. I have lived inside of it.” In 1969, Dr. Joe MacInnis, one…
Federal Party Leaders Plans for Great Lakes Protection
The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative (GLSLCI) sent questionnaires to five political parties; four were returned. “Given the national and international importance of…
Party Leaders Urged to Sign Great Lakes Pledge
Environmental groups asked the leaders of the federal parties yesterday to put their name to a pledge to make toxic pollution in the Great Lakes…
Ike’s Effects Linger in Great Lakes
Although Hurricane Ike is long gone, its impact lingers more than a thousand miles from where it made landfall. Runoff from tributaries dumped massive amounts…
U.S. House Approves Great Lakes Compact: AP
The House ratified a compact Tuesday to prevent the diversion of water from the Great Lakes, one of the world’s largest sources of fresh water,…