Lake Superior needs friends on the government benches according to Carol Hughes whose questions about a Superior-focused group received a reply about Lake Simcoe.

Asian carp are coming to a Great Lake near you. In Michigan recently, organizations representing states and cities in the Great Lakes basin proposed that the only sure way to protect the invaluable waters was to spend up to $9.5 billion on a plan The Associated Press described as "a massive engineering project to separate the lakes from the Mississippi River watershed."

The Great Lakes region can take some comfort — but not a lot — from President Obama’s proposed budget. It calls for $300 million next year to remove contaminated sediment from harbors and streams, under a federal program called the Great Lakes Restor…

The president’s budget for fiscal year 2013 includes more than $4.7 billion in discretionary funding for the Civil Works program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with almost $64 million for Detroit District projects around the Great Lakes.

Efforts to upgrade crumbling sewer systems in the Great Lakes region would take a hit under a 20 percent cut President Barack Obama proposed for a federal wastewater loan program, advocates said Wednesday.