Great Lakes

• Motion pictures -- Mysteries of the Great Lakes

• Great Lakes Steamship Repower Incentive Program

EPA is taking direct final action to simplify an existing provision in our marine diesel engine program that is intended to encourage owners of Great Lakes steamships to repower those steamships with cleaner marine diesel engines. The simplified program will automatically permit the use of residual fuel, through December 31, 2025, in a steamship if it has been repowered with a certified Tier 2 or later marine diesel engine, provided the steamship was operated exclusively on the Great Lakes and was in service on October 30, 2009. Steamships are powered by old, inefficient steam boilers. Voluntary replacement of these boilers with modern fuel-efficient marine diesel engines will result in reductions of particulate matter and sulfur oxides, even while the replacement diesel engines are ope...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 2472, January 18, 2012
• Rules and Regulations
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Jerome B. Grubart, Inc. v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., 513 U.S. 527 (1995)

OCTOBER TERM, 1994 Syllabus JEROME B. GRUBART, INC. v. GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO. ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• 2012 Rates for Pilotage on the Great Lakes

The Coast Guard is adjusting the rates for pilotage services on the Great Lakes, which were last amended in February 2011. The adjustments establish new base rates and are made in accordance with a required full ratemaking procedure. They result in an average decrease of approximately 2.62 percent from the rates established in February 2011. This final rule promotes the Coast Guard's strategic goal of maritime safety.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 11752, February 28, 2012
• Rules and Regulations
• Homeland Security Department

• Experts Seek Asian Carp Gateways to Great Lakes

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Not quite 5 miles long, Jerome Creek winds through farmland and Pleasant Prairie, Wis., about 35 miles south of Milwaukee. In some places, it's narrow enough to jump across. It fish population consists mostly of minnows. Yet this unremarkable stream could be an ecological time bomb, for it's a crucial link in a chain of waterways hundreds of miles long that connects Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River. Experts said the creek might be a doorway through which invasive species - including the much-maligned Asian carp - will slip between the Mississippi drainage basins and the Great Lakes.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• September 02, 2011

• Great Lakes Steamship Repower Incentive Program

EPA is proposing to simplify an existing provision in our marine diesel engine program that is intended to encourage owners of Great Lakes steamships to repower those steamships with cleaner marine diesel engines. The simplified program would automatically permit the use of residual fuel, through December 31, 2025, in a steamship if it has been repowered with a certified Tier 2 or later marine diesel engine, provided the steamship was operated exclusively on the Great Lakes and was in service on October 30, 2009. Steamships are powered by old, inefficient steam boilers. Voluntary replacement of these boilers with modern fuel-efficient marine diesel engines would result in reductions of particulate matter and sulfur oxides, even while the replacement diesel engines are operated on higher...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 2497, January 18, 2012
• Proposed rules
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Revising the Listing of the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) in the Western Great Lakes

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service or USFWS) are revising the 1978 listing of the Minnesota population of gray wolves (Canis lupus) to conform to current statutory and policy requirements. We rename what was previously listed as the Minnesota population of the gray wolf as the Western Great Lakes (WGL) Distinct Population Segment (DPS), and delineate the boundaries of the expanded Minnesota population segment to include all of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan and portions of the adjacent states. We are removing the WGL DPS from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. We are taking this action because the best available scientific and commercial information indicates that the WGL DPS does not meet the definitions of threatened or endangered under the Act. This fina...

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 81666, December 28, 2011
• Rules and Regulations
• Interior Department

• 40 CFR Appendix F to Part 132 - Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative Implementation Procedures

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 40: Protection of Environment

• Great Lakes Pilotage:

• FR, February 04, 2011
• Rules
• Coast Guard

• Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation Reports Record 2010 Full Year Results.

Great Lakes Achieves Second Consecutive Year of Record EBITDA Backlog remains strong year over year OAK BROOK, Ill. -- Great Lakes Dredge & Dock C...

• Business Wire
• February 22, 2011

• Great Lakes Pilotage Advisory Committee

The (GLPAC) will meet on June 7, 2012, in Washington, District of Columbia. The meeting will be open to the public.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 24729, April 25, 2012
• Notices
• Homeland Security Department