(ON) Canada.com - Nearly seven months ago, Herb Gray watched as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Lawrence Cannon, met halfway across the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls and — amid considerable fanfare — pledged to redraft and bolster a decades-old treaty aimed at protecting the Great Lakes from environmental harm.

(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - City officials later this month will unveil a draft application to pump Lake Michigan water to Waukesha for its residents and businesses, Water Utility General Manager Dan Duchniak said Tuesday.

(MI) The Detroit News - Federal agents are investigating a recent rash of illegal wolf killings across northern Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

(MI) Port Huron Herald - Freighters are continuing their way down the St. Clair River and into Lake St. Clair, said “Freighter” Frank Frisk, a maritime consultant at the Great Lakes Maritime Center.

By Eric Freedman
Jan. 13, 2009
LANSING—In many ways, Michigan is a state of connections, including historic links between the Ojibwe people of Minnesota and Isle Royale. Such connections can be explored in words and pictures that illuminate the linkages that bind land and water, peoples and places, present and past.
Minong – The Good Place (Michigan State University Press, $24.49) provides an in-depth account of the intimate relationship between the North Shore Ojibwe people and Isle Royale, which is now a national park in Lake Superior off the west coast of the …

(WI) Green Bay Press Gazette - A court fight over funding a paper-industry cleanup of PCB contamination in the Fox River rekindled Monday when one company disclosed plans to appeal a judge’s recent ruling and another moved to reassert its own legal claims.

By Vince Bond Jr.
Jan. 12, 2010

LANSING, Mich. – The next time you’re stuck watching a seemingly endless train at a railroad crossing, look at it as a down payment on your next electricity bill.
Whether freight trains are delivering coal to power plants in mid-Michigan or transporting iron ore in the Upper Peninsula, they still have what it takes to pull the economy forward, said Robert Chaprnka, president of the Michigan Railroads Association.

By Rachael Gleason
Jan. 11, 2010
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has mapped out its enforcement record for the first time.
A mashup of civil actions and criminal cases shows which polluters the agency cracked down on last year.

(OH) Toledo Blade - While the water-blessed Great Lakes region hasn’t encountered Western-style conflicts over water yet, legal scholars expect that to change with the Earth’s population rising and its climate warming.

(OH) Toledo Blade - Imagine a terrorist heading toward your community. Not a disgruntled Nigerian with possible ties to al-Qaeda, mind you. But a hyperactive, monster fish from Asia armed with a voracious appetite and the ability to wipe out a Great Lakes fishery valued at $7 billion.