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Article: Finding a cure for Lake Michigan
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- February 12, 2004
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Finding a cure for Lake Michigan
Watershed seminar explores solutions to environmental ills
By MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel
Thursday, February 12, 2004
Having cataloged the ills besetting Lake Michigan -- mercury in
the fish, dirty beaches unfit for swimming, invasive species -- Judy
Beck of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency offered a blunt
summary this week:
"If I were from a different federal agency, if I represented
Homeland Security," she told a crowd of 270 at the Four Points by
Sheraton in Brown Deer, "I would probably be telling you that we are
seriously considering an orange alert."
That's "high risk" on the new terror alert scale.
What that ...