MPC Roundtable — Immeasurable Loss: Modernizing Lake Michigan Water Use

May. 7, 2013
At this roundtable, MPC releases their paper Immeasurable Loss: Modernizing Lake Michigan Water Use, which supports IDNR’s proposals and makes further recommendations for more efficient water use. The paper and the discussion provide up-to-date information on IDNR’s proposals and an opportunity for frank discussion.

IL: Lake Michigan losing too much water

May. 7, 2013
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources proposes tighter regulations for those who draw water out of the lake.

Photo of the Day - May 3, 2013

May. 3, 2013

Cleaning up Chicago’s beaches

Apr. 13, 2013
Volunteers for the Great Lakes Alliance Adopt-A-Beach program hit the beaches after a season of record-low water. And they may find romance there.

Durbin fired up over coal-fired ferry

Mar. 25, 2013
Illinois U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is crying foul over a proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that would allow a famous coal-fired ferry to keep running.

What’s causing record-low lake levels?

Jan. 31, 2013
Here’s a hint: It’s not the bottled-water industry. It’s something much, much bigger.

Grand Calumet's toxins in Lake Michigan

Jan. 26, 2013
The Grand Calumet River system winds for 13 miles through a Northwest Indiana industrial landscape that could almost be described as post-apocalyptic.

Grand Calumet River’s road to recovery

Jan. 26, 2013
The sediment on the bottom of the Grand Calumet River in Northwest Indiana provides a toxic record of the region’s history going back more than a century.It is full of chemicals, heavy metals and other contaminants from steel-making, oil refining, waste incineration, smelting and other heavy i

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