GLIN Daily News RSS Feed for Indiana http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ 2010-02-09T07:01:01-04:00 http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ http://www.glin.net/news/rss.gif text/html 2010-02-08T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20100207/News01/2070393/-1/googleNews Vince Deur, a surfer and founder of the Lake Michigan Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, said it's natural for him to care about the future of the Great Lakes. But that's not what brought him to Capitol Hill last year to talk about water quality. text/html 2010-01-29T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.post-trib.com/news/2017725,usscite0129.article U.S. Steel Gary Works treated and destroyed 10,000 pounds of benzene over three months in the fall as the company worked on preventing contaminated groundwater from leaking into Lake Michigan. The company still has "multiple years" of treatment to go. text/html 2010-01-28T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.chestertontribune.com/Indiana%20News/tallian_shoreline_bill_advances.htm The Indiana State Senate Committee on Natural Resources unanimously approved S.B. 339 to merge the Lake Michigan Marina Development Commission and the Shoreline Development Commission, which both deal with development along the Lake Michigan shoreline corridor. text/html 2010-01-26T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.post-trib.com/news/2006637,usspermit0123.article The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has issued the wastewater permit for U.S. Steel Gary Works, the agency announced Friday. The issuance marks the end of a nearly seven-year process, during which IDEM has released three drafts. text/html 2010-01-25T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jconline.com/article/20100124/NEWS/100124003 Researchers who took soil samples from the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal in heavily industrialized northwestern Indiana have found that it contains high levels of potentially cancer-causing PCBs. text/html 2010-01-25T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.wmta.org/publications-24/ The 2010 Lake Michigan Circle Tour & Lighthouse map is now available online. The map shows all of the lighthouses around Lake Michigan and provides highlights, accessibility and a photo of over 20 lighthouses. text/html 2010-01-21T08:05:50-04:00 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9621897 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to collect water samples this spring from two northwestern Indiana rivers that flow into Lake Michigan as part of its ongoing efforts to track the spread of invasive Asian carp. text/html 2010-01-15T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.post-trib.com/news/1991954,dredge-0115.article Mud in the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal is so contaminated with a cancer-causing industrial pollutant that it could rank among the most contaminated sites in the nation, researchers say. The Army Corps of Engineers plans to dredge the canal starting in late 2011 to facilitate ship traffic. text/html 2010-01-13T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.post-trib.com/news/1986210,impaired0112.article Water quality in Indiana's rivers, lakes and streams might not be worse than it was two years ago -- even though that's what the state's list of impaired waters indicates, state environmental officials say. text/html 2010-01-12T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-dunesgroups-merge,0,3519662.story One of Indiana's oldest environmental groups has a new name following a recent merger with its conservation land trust. The Save the Dunes Council and the Save the Dunes Conservation Fund merged Jan. 1 into a single tax-exempt nonprofit entity now known as Save the Dunes.