LA Times: China's fight against disposable chopsticks. China's government is promising stricter regulation over the production of disposable chopsticks. "Companies making disposable chopsticks will face local government restrictions aimed at decreasing the use of the throwaway utensil.... Production, circulation and recycling of disposable chopsticks should be more strictly supervised." The ...
Despite being rebuffed twice by the U.S. Supreme Court, five states filed suit Monday with a lower court demanding tougher federal and municipal action to prevent Asian carp from overrunning the Great Lakes and decimating their fishing industry. Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and Pennsylvania said in their complaint the situation ...
An Asian carp was found for the first time beyond electric barriers meant to keep the voracious invasive species out of the Great Lakes, state and federal officials said Wednesday, prompting renewed calls for swift action to block their advance. Commercial fishermen landed the 3-foot-long, 20-pound bighead carp in Lake ...
Federal officials on Thursday ruled out closing Chicago-area shipping locks on a regular basis, saying it probably would not stop dreaded Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes but could damage the local economy. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said anything short of permanently closing the two locks was ...
The Supreme Court last week dismissed Michigan's petition to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes by ending the Chicago diversion that artificially connects Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River system. The Supreme Court has already refused to reopen its consent decree that governs the Chicago diversion and the ...
A new resolution from the National Wildlife Federation is calling for hydrological separation of the Mississippi River System and the Great Lakes Basin to stop Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan. Leaders from the Great Lakes region and across the country gathered in Houston, Texas last week to determine the ...
Get the scoop on Asian carp from Great Lakes advocates at the National Wildlife Federation's Great Lakes Regional Center in Ann Arbor. Watch and listen as they spell out the invasive carp problem - or stop by the NWF Open House to get the inside story. Marc Smith, National Wildlife ...
Michigan officials are urging state residents to comment before the Friday evening deadline on the draft of the federal Asian carp strategy.
As the battle to keep Asian carp from creating a sustained population in the Great Lakes wages on, the Supreme Court denied a request to temporarily close a Chicago-area waterway for a second time Monday.
I grew up in Grand Haven when a large sandy, sun warmed beach was a constant in summer. With Asian carp taking the food source from the fish in Lake Michigan, dead fish along the shore will be a constant thing and because of the smell and presence of dead ...
As a resident in the Ann Arbor/Dexter area I would like to express my concern about the Asian Carp Invasion in the Great Lakes. My wife and I are property owners on Drummond Island where we operated a resort since 1997. We believe we can speak first hand about the ...
Ypsilanti blogger Mark Maynard writes in a recent post: Speaking of Asian carp, I find it interesting that, of the now twenty-some articles I’ve read on the subject, I haven’t come across a single mention of how the giant fish taste. I mean, I want them out of the Great ...
Devin Parsons writes a daily roundup of the news in his Daily Daily series on the University of Michigan Democrats weblog "Kicking Ass Ann Arbor."Â Here is a sample from Thursday:"Now on to an urgent issue on which environmentalists continue to harp: A topic none other than the invasive Asian ...
Ann Runstrom, left, Heidi Keuler, and Scott Yess, right, of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services show nets with stunned gizzard shad and a common carp as they search for Asian carp in the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal Wednesday. AP Photo/M. Spencer Green Plans drafted by federal and state ...
Federal officials will be discussing what to do about the Asian carp problem at a public meeting in Ypsilanti on Wednesday. In the second public meeting of its sort in the region, the event is meant to address the federal government's plans and recommendations for protecting the Great Lakes from ...
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