Congressional lawmakers seek answers about delays on a project to keep invasive carp of the Great Lakes.

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Fish kills are not uncommon in the Great Lakes region. Recently, more than 24,000 fish were killed on Ohio’s Maumee River.

Long before Trump’s tariff war and attempts to change the name of Lake Ontario, Canada and the U.S. made an agreement to clean up the most polluted sites on the Great Lakes. Just recently, Nipigon Bay...

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

With little time left to avert a population collapse, officials plan to pluck whitefish from the mussel-infested Great Lakes and raise their offspring in hatcheries.

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The Trump administration has stalled a study that would help identify industries dumping harmful PFAS chemicals in wastewater, two former officials say.

The U.S. Forest Service is closing 23 research stations in more than a dozen states as part of an organizational overhaul under President Donald Trump.

With little time left to avert a population collapse, officials plan to pluck whitefish from the mussel-infested Great Lakes and raise their offspring in hatcheries.

The order had halted construction on a state-federal project in Joliet, Illinois, meant to block invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes.

Great Lakes researchers warn that changing Lake Ontario’s name is a costly waste of time that complicates longstanding collaboration to manage and protect an iconic water body named by indigenous people before either the United States or Canada were founded. The August 27 executive order signed by President Trump directs the federal government to change Lake Ontario’s name to Lake America across its maps, documents, and communications.

University of Michigan and Toledo scientists are studying how exposure to airborne toxins from Lake Erie's algae blooms could affect people.

Officials in Indiana discussed the state’s clean water supply at the 9th annual Indiana Water Summit.

A new rule proposed by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) would fundamentally change the way that federal funding is managed for scientific research — but for now, the Senate has ...

Nine days after the storm that was to blame for it all, tens of thousands of people yet again woke up without power in Northwest Indiana on Thursday.

Lake Erie isn’t just Ohio’s Great Lake, it’s an economic engine for the state, with Ohio now home to one of the largest charter fishing fleets in the region. With about 945 captains, Ohio’s charter…

Ever since Jacob Leinenkugel discovered spring waters here that were pure enough to brew his famous beer, this small Wisconsin city’s devotion to clean water has been paramount. That’s why in 1997, when Chippewa Falls utility managers detected potentially dangerous concentrations of nitrates in a well supplying city water, officials acted. They installed new filtration equipment in their treatment system and drilled deeper wells into cleaner aquifers to ensure the water delivered to the city’s 16,000 customers contained nitrates at concentrations less than 10 parts per million, the level deemed safe by federal law.