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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.
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.
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.
Spill response 'inadequate' for tar sands crude on Great Lakes
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.
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.
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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