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DNR: Waukesha failed to justify water volume boost

Wisconsin environmental officials say Waukesha has failed to justify the volume of Lake Michigan water it says city customers will need over the next four decades as part of a Great Lakes diversion request.

Scientists: 'Dead zones' showing up in Green Bay

Scientists say Lake Michigan's Green Bay is developing "dead zones" similar to sections of Lake Erie and the Gulf of Mexico, where there's so little oxygen that few if any organisms can survive.

We Energies to pay $100,000 for bluff collapse

We Energies has agreed to pay $100,000 for violating state environmental regulations before a 2011 bluff collapse that sent a huge amount of coal ash and other sediment into Lake Michigan.

Strong winds shifts ice, strands anglers

Eight ice fishermen had to be rescued from four different spots near Green Bay after strong winds of up to 40 mph opened up wide gaps in the ice on Lake Michigan.

Ash-dumping Lake Michigan ferry may stay afloat

SS Badger last coal-burning steamship on the Great Lakes

A Lake Michigan ferry that travels between Wisconsin and Michigan would be allowed to stay afloat even though it dumps 500 tons of coal ash into the lake each season.

Ash-dumping Lake Michigan ferry may stay afloat

SS Badger last coal-burning steamship on the Great Lakes

A Lake Michigan ferry that travels between Wisconsin and Michigan would be allowed to stay afloat even though it dumps 500 tons of coal ash into the lake each season.

Sandy kicking up 20-foot waves on Lake Michigan

Winds reach more than 50 mph

Superstorm Sandy is so vast it's kicking up near record-high waves of 20 feet out on Lake Michigan, several hundred miles from the center of the storm that's pounding the East Coast.

Sandy kicking up 20-foot waves on Lake Michigan

Winds reach more than 50 mph

Superstorm Sandy is so vast it's kicking up near record-high waves of 20 feet out on Lake Michigan, several hundred miles from the center of the storm that's pounding the East Coast.