Lake Michigan
The Issues
  • What We Do
    Great Lakes Regional Center Issues

    Learn more about the our work at the Great Lakes Regional Center.

  • Great Lakes Success
    New Mercury Limits Will Protect Fish & Wildlife

    Mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants contaminates the Great Lakes and small inland lakes across the region. The National Wildlife Federation has been advocating for the limits on mercury that are now being released by the Environmental Protect Agency.

    Reports and Fact Sheets
    Feast and Famine in the Great Lakes

    How Nutrients and Invasive Species Interact to Overwhelm the Coasts and Starve Offshore Waters.

    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    New report on the implementation of the Great Lakes Compact.

    Unfinished Business

    New report breaks down what the Midwest needs to do to lead in the clean energy economy.

    Improving the Odds 

    Using climate-readiness to reduce the impacts of climate change on the Great Lakes ecosystem

    What Scientists are Saying about Asian Carp Surviving in the Great Lakes

    Research indicates that Asian carp could establish self sustaining populations in the Great Lakes.

    The Eagle Mine Project - Sulfide Ore Mining in Marquette Co. 

    The Yellow Dog Plains wilderness, one of Michigan's largest wild areas, could be turned into an industrial zone by Kennecott Minerals. (PDF)

    Great Lakes Restoration & the Threat of Global Warming 

    How to protect the Great Lakes from global warming and what it means for the Great Lakes.

    Great Lakes
    Regional Center

    Since 1982, the Great Lakes Regional Center has been a leader in protecting the Great Lakes for the wildlife and humans that depend on this invaluable resource.

    Great Lakes Regional Center
    213 W. Liberty St., Suite 200
    Ann Arbor, MI 48104
    Phone: 734-769-3351
    Fax: 734-887-7199

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