Environment
As rains intensify, sewage surges into Wisconsin waters
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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
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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
Coast Guard tests new methods for heavy oil recovery
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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.
great lakes
Spill response ‘inadequate’ for tar sands crude on Great Lakes
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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
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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?
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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.