Items Tagged with 'Great Lakes'

Funding deal will push forward two-decade-plus effort to build barriers and take other steps to prevent invasive species migration into the key U.S. shipping and recreation hub.

Remediation will target PCBs, petroleum compounds and heavy metals inone of the most polluted areas of the U.S.

Company dredges spent too much time in dry dock, impacting its financial results in the first half of 2022.

Enbridge Energy will issue requests for proposals in the coming weeks for contractors to construct a $500-million Great Lakes tunnel to carry crude oil and natural gas liquids through the Straits of Mackinac between Michigan and Ontario.

EPA plans to spend $1 billion from IIJA to speed cleanups, allowing most key projects in region to be completed by 2030. 

The project will widen part of the channel from 530 ft to 700 ft and take dredged material to create an island bird habitat.

Citing spill risks, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) set a May 13 deadline to shut down the portion of the oil and natural gas line that runs through the straits of Mackinac between the state and Ontario, but Canada opposes closure.

New analysis estimates much higher benefit-cost ratio than in 2005 Corps report.