Tributaries of Lake Erie aren't catching fire as they did a half-century ago. But by several important measures, the lake -- generally considered the bellwether for the health of the other four Great Lakes -- has declined to a point as bad as or worse than it has ever been. Researchers believe this year's mass of algae at the western end of the lake, which borders partially on Ohio, Michigan and Ontario, probably has set a new record. And the dead zones in the central part of the lake also may be the largest ever. It won't be enough to rest on the legacy of the work done cleaning up Lake Erie in the 1960s and 1970s, a point driven home during a massive gathering of clean water agencies and advocates in Detroit last month.
Atlanta -- People hoping to protect the Great Lakes from becoming a Paul Bunyan-sized water cooler for an increasingly thirsty world like to invoke frightening language. They say we'd better act fast to build a legal dike around the world's biggest freshwater system, because wars in the coming decades won't be fought over oil. They will be fought over water.
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...
... for the people who live in the Great Lakes region. Conversion to new diesel engines will also result...
Great Lakes metro areas such as the Buffalo Niagara region are effectively using exports to bolster their economies, but their manufacturers need to become more innovative to make the most of foreign sales and create jobs, a new study says. The report, prepared by the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., also found that Buffalo Niagara performs well in exporting services, a category expected to grow.
The states of the industrial Midwest can tilt the 2008 presidential race to their advantage if they unite for the first time behind what a Brookings Institution author calls a common political agenda and near-identical industrial heritage. The states of the Great Lakes region assert strong national political influence," Brookings economist John Austin wrote in a report that he presented to civic leaders in Milwaukee on Thursday. "Having decided the last two presidential elections, they enter the 2008 election season as the catered-to swing states in the nation's first wide-open presidential contest in many years.
HOUSTON, Dec. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardno ENTRIX, a premier natural resources management and environmental consultancy, announced today that its parent, Cardno Limited, has signed an agreement to merge with JFNew, a Midwest leader in ecological consulting, ecosystem restoration and native plant nursery operations. JFNew has regional offices in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101209/LA15131LOGO)
College of Wooster Report Chantal Koechli and Kelsey Peters of The College of Wooster were named all-Great Lakes Region by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, with Koechli collecting second-team honors and Peters third-team, announced the NSCAA recently.
The floor of the University at Buffalo Art Gallery is a total mess. Someone has strewn a huge array of refuse across the space, including cardboard boxes for products like an old Macintosh computer and a Nintendo Wii, piles and piles of raggedy old newspapers, towering stacks of egg cartons, children's toys smudged with dirt, rusty coffee canisters, cigarette packs, water bottles, rubber hoses and an empty tub that once contained a block of feta cheese.
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