Category: Great Lakes
FishPass project stays on track for 2027 as Sen. Peters tours Traverse City site
U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) hopped on his motorcycle for his last state tour, stopping Thursday to see how the FishPass construction project was coming along in Traverse City, Michigan. […]
Great Lakes groups call for construction to restart at invasive carp barrier
The bipartisan Congressional Great Lakes Task Force, state agencies in Illinois and Michigan, and environmental organizations have all sent requests to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to resume construction […]
Huron County clean water program ending in 2026
A Huron County, Ontario, program that has helped fund thousands of projects aimed at keeping contaminants out of local waterways and Lake Huron will come to an end this year […]
Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ in the United States
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to update Lake Ontario’s name to “Lake America” in the U.S. geographic naming service. Trump cannot force Canada to […]
Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ in US
The lakeâs name comes from the Huron Indigenous peopleâs word ‘oniatarÃ:io,’ which means ‘lake of shining waters’ and it predates European settlement in the region. The Ontario province took its name from the lake….