Tag: Lake Erie
Fact or Fake? Readers can test their Great Lakes knowledge with excerpts from this new book
Great Lakes Fact or Fake? is a new book by Dave Dempsey. Below are adapted excerpts from the book, which bring readers along while he answers 41 myths about the Great Lakes.
Drinking Sewage
FACT or FAKE?
Remaining would-be intervenors make final plea to Judge Carr for inclusion in Lake Erie TMDL case
All three remaining parties trying to be added as co-plaintiffs or co-defendants to the landmark Lake Erie case before Senior U.S. District Judge James Carr met their Jan. 20 deadlines to bolster their arguments.
Freighter gets stuck on Lake Erie ice: Coast Guard
One of the largest vessels to use the Port of Cleveland — the 1004-foot-long, 50-foot-tall James R. Barker — on Thursday found itself stuck in ice as it attempted to […]
Commission holding photo contest
The Ohio Lake Erie Commission’s Annual Life on Lake Erie Photo Contest is now open. Photographers are invited to submit up to five images that represent the essence of life […]
‘Ripples of Plastic’ Documentary, an examination of Lake Erie’s plastic pollution problem, comes to the Capitol
A film set to debut in Cleveland might be the first of its kind to provide a hyperlocal focus on the unseen impacts of the plastic materials that are floating […]
Regulators say Detroit SO2 pollution under control after years of exceeding federal standards
By Brian Allnutt, Planet Detroit
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Michigan regulators will hold an online public hearing on Jan. 28 to discuss redesignating parts of southwest Detroit and Downriver as meeting federal sulfur dioxide (SO2) air quality standards.
How Southwestern Ontario is losing its winter (and why that should worry you)
Parts of Southwestern Ontario are losing more than two weeks of sub-zero days each winter due to climate change, a new report says. In London and Middlesex County, there are an average of nine additional above-freezing days each December to February, a trend that may lead to more ice storms and flooding, one renowned climate […]
London homicide victim, 64, remembered as ‘beacon of light’
A London homicide victim was a “beacon of light” who loved gardening, cooking and being with her family, according to her obituary.
Ohio EPA to defend sewage permit it authorized for Port Clinton at special hearing
PORT CLINTON — A special public hearing is being held Tuesday night for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to defend itself from accusations that it failed to do enough to protect Lake Erie with a wastewater permit it issued to the city of Port Clinton in April.
Lake Erie ice cover is below normal so far but growing
Temperatures have been below freezing in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan since the afternoon of New Year’s Day, and that has led to widespread ice development across western Lake Erie. […]