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The time has come to rewrite the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
On April 15, 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau signed the Canada-U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) in recognition of the urgent need to improve environmental conditions in the Great Lakes. The Agreement was revised in 1978 and amended in 1987, and now, 23 years later, it is time to revitalize it once again. Great Lakes United is calling on you to make your voice heard in this historic renegotiation process.
Tritium: A Great Lakes hidden health hazard
The list of problems associated with nuclear energy in the Great Lakes is a long one — from the unimaginable impact of a catastrophic accident at a nuclear reactor to the buildup of high-level radioactive wastes at reactors and long-term storage sites across the basin.
An incident last year at the Chalk River nuclear [...]
Fish advisories still tough to swallow
Fish from the lakes can be safe to eat, but species, size and location matter.
State of the Lakes? Not that Great
After decades of monitoring the Great Lakes ecosystem, the Canadian and U.S governments still have only limited knowledge of the status of human and wildlife health in the Great Lakes and do not know whether that status is improving or getting worse.
A Great Lakes year
This has been a remarkable year for Great Lakes protection. As 2008 comes to a close, we reflect on some of the achievements citizens and organizations across the region deserve to celebrate.
When is a hotspot no longer a hotspot?
With remediation activity completed, the push is on to delist Torch Lake as an Area of Concern. But with millions of tons of sediment still contaminated, delisting this site before these sediments are buried by natural processes may be hasty.
© 2008 Great Lakes News. 
