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06.03.2008
Citizens’ Groups Outline Toxic Hotspots Cleanup - Attention to Ontario’s worst sites of toxic pollution have steadily fallen from the public and government radar over the past several decades. On the heels of a report by the Environment Commissioner... [read more]
22.01.2008
Seaway Study Misses Opportunity to Foster Sustainable Shipping - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has backed away from Seaway expansion, but missed an enormous opportunity to develop a blueprint for a sustainable shipping system ... [read more]
15.01.2008
Report Calls for Improved Great Lakes Governance - Great Lakes United released a report today describing how governance structures have stalled progress on protecting and restoring the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River ecosystem... [read more]
11.01.2008
Great Lakes United Applauds Effort to Prevent the Import of Invasive Species - Great Lakes United signed onto a letter in support of U.S. efforts to craft legislation to pre-screen non-native species to ensure they are not invasive... [read more]
07.11.2007
Lawsuit Exposes Canada’s Toxic Tailings Secret Litigation was launched today against Canada’s Minister of Environment to
ensure that the hundreds of millions of kilograms of toxic mining waste being kept
secret from the Canadian public are reported.... [read more]
10.22.2007
Great Lakes United Offers Limited Endorsement of Green Marine In a letter, Great Lakes United expressed its support of the initiative and offered to advance objectives that aim to improve the environmental performance of the industry... [read more]
10.10.2007
Ontarians Expect Aggressive Action to Protect the Great Lakes: New Poll A recent poll released by Great Lakes United shows that Ontarians see the Lakes as vital to our
economy and way of life, with nine out of ten saying they are concerned with sewage and toxic
pollution contaminating the food chain... [read more]
19.09.2007
Great Lakes United and Allies Release Blueprint for Cleanup in Canada Governments must do their fair share to clean up and protect the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, according to a Great Lakes Blueprint released today by six leading environmental
groups... [read the release] [read the report]
15.08.2007
Great Lakes Problems Threaten to Overwhelm Agreement Actions The Federal and Ontario governments' release of their 3-year Great Lakes work plan has raised concerns among leading Great Lakes based organizations. The most recent Canada-Ontario Agreement (COA)... [read more]
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