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Environment

As rains intensify, sewage surges into Wisconsin waters

By Danielle Kaeding (Wisconsin Public Radio) | January 11, 2020

Climate change is bringing heavier rains, making it tougher to keep untreated sewage and stormwater out of the Great Lakes.

Environment

Great Lakes freighters may have to treat ballast water to curb invasives

By Jim Malewitz (Wisconsin Watch) and Sarah Whites-Koditschek (Wisconsin Public Radio/Wisconsin Watch) | August 27, 2019

Ballast rules for ocean-going vessels to limit invasive species work; adding rules for local freighters would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, the industry says.

Environment
A view from the camera of a manned submersible designed to recover heavy oil by Marine Pollution Control. Photo excerpted from USCG report CG-D-09-13, June 2013

Coast Guard tests new methods for heavy oil recovery

By | March 23, 2014

In 2011, the Coast Guard tested, off New Jersey’s shoreline, three prototypes for finding, mapping and recovering submerged oil, from three companies that each spent a year on the problem.

Oil in the Kalamazoo River on July 28, 2010, three days after an Enbridge pipeline burst, causing the worst inland oil spill in U.S. history. The spill was particularly difficult to clean up because some of the oil sank.
great lakes

Spill response ‘inadequate’ for tar sands crude on Great Lakes

By | March 23, 2014

A refinery’s proposal to ship heavy crude oil from Superior across the Great Lakes has emergency responders gearing up to bolster gaps in current oil spill response plans. And the gaps are substantial, experts say.

water pollution

Drugs found in Lake Michigan, miles from sewage outfalls

By Brian Bienkowski | September 5, 2013

Prescription drugs are contaminating Lake Michigan two miles from Milwaukee’s sewage outfalls, suggesting that the lake is not diluting the compounds as most researchers expected, according to new research. Republished from Environmental Health News.

Fish

Data for fishermen: How long until the fish are safe?

By | June 15, 2010

In the best-case scenario, we’ll be able to eat all the Lake Michigan lake trout we want without worrying about getting cancer from the PCBs — in another 20 years. Less optimistically, we might have to wait until 2046.

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