In particular, coal plants are the largest source of mercury pollution in the Great Lakes.
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All of the sites have suffered from political instability in the Great Lakes region over the past two decades.
But if it's necessary to have clean water in the Great Lakes in the 21st century, it's worth looking at.
One reason is more defaults of mortgage insurance--which, ironically, protects against borrower defaults--due to auto industry job losses in the Great Lakes.
Peace and Sport participated in the round-table discussion on youth violence prevention in the Great Lakes Region, organized by UNESCO in June 2011.
Climate change is likely to cut rainfall in the Great Lakes basin, while ever more water will be drawn from the lakes by a rising urban population.
Mr Museveni's critics accuse him at best of overreaching himself, at worst of being a military adventurer, bent on establishing an empire of ethnic Tutsis in the Great Lakes region.
The agreement calls for the water system to be treated as a single complex ecosystem made up of countless tributaries, underground aquifers and smaller lakes all held in the Great Lakes basin.
The students, who were selected to be a 2012 Lemelson-MIT program InvenTeam, built the device with the goal of reducing the number of drowning deaths due to rip currents in the Great Lakes.
This includes relevant pacts and protocols, such as the December 2006 Protocol on Management of Information and Communication in the Great Lakes region and its proposal to establish an independent Regional Council of Information and Communication (RICC).
The Asian carp is a species not native to this part of the world, and its presence in the Great Lakes would be devastating to the species that are native to Lake Michigan and its counterpart lakes.
Scientists drained some fish of their sperm or eggs, which were later fertilized to create hatchlings to reintroduce or support the fish in other parts of their ancient range in the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay and Mississippi basins.
But until late last year, he resisted efforts for Right to Work legislation, which would be the first passed by a state in two decades, and the first in the industrial Great Lakes states.
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As manufacturing has recovered, employment has rebounded quicker in the Southeast than in the rival Great Lakes region.
The biggest number of vulnerable seats lie in the region bordering the Great Lakes, in states such as Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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In the eight Great Lakes states, organizations devoted to the venture are springing up, with headquarters, government grants and binders full of Power Points and five-year plans.
Meanwhile, the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast states should expect unseasonably warm air to linger until late in the week, while it should remain relatively cool in the Northeast and Great Lakes region.
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Many cities in the Northeast and Great Lakes region collect storm water to clean it in wastewater treatment centers.
But things can go wrong, as with the spread of prickly pear in Australia early last century or zebra mussels in the North American Great Lakes at the moment.
In fact, most of the top-10 states people are leaving are located in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions, including Illinois (60%), New York (58%), Michigan (58%), Maine (56%), Connecticut (56%) and Wisconsin (55%).
The map shows that the top metros for bars are clustered in the Midwest, Great Lakes and Plains.
Perhaps more importantly, these states are nurturing families, in contrast to the Great Lakes states, the Northeast and California.
Forecasters said snowfall was possible in varying amounts from the Great Lakes region through the Northeast.
In one instance, we proposed reestablishing the natural division between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watersheds (essentially disconnecting them) in order to restore the banks of the Chicago River.
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Security Council, but there's no coherence in the broader neighborhood of the Great Lakes region.
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Ontario is already one of the top regions globally for producing innovative water technology, said venture capitalist David Henderson, managing director of XPV Capital in Toronto, thanks to the Great Lakes historically attracting water-intensive industries.
"To us and our people, it's extremely significant, " said Shane Cordes, CEO of Midwest Air Traffic Control Service, which provides controllers to towers in about 23 states in the East, Northeast, Great Lakes and central regions of the United States.
In Chicago, chefs have turned Asian carp into ceviche and chowder in an attempt to curb the rise of the plankton-devouring species, which has spread to Great Lakes since escaping from US fish farms in the 1970s.
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They also voted to block drilling for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes over the objection of the White House.
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The Policy lays out a science-based approach to conservation and management, and brings together Federal, State, local, and tribal governments with all those who have a stake in our oceans, coasts, and the Great Lakes -- including recreational and commercial fishermen, boaters, offshore and coastal industries, environmental groups, scientists, and the public.
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