Sustain Our Great Lakes program is requesting proposals to benefit fish, wildlife, habitat, and water quality in the Great Lakes basin. The program will award approximately $8.5 million in grants in 2021 to improve and enhance: stream, riparian, and coastal habitats and water quality in the Great Lakes and its tributaries, including a focal area within Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan Watershed.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the removal of the 100th Beneficial Use Impairment (BUI) from a U.S. Area of Concern (AOC), a historic milestone in restoring the Great Lakes. At the Black River AOC near Lorain, Ohio, EPA removed the 'degradation of aesthetics' BUI.

NOAA extends its Data Integration Visualization Exploration and Reporting (DIVER) application to the St. Louis River AOC to aid in habitat restoration.

A recent study of benthic sediment in Lake Michigan and Lake Erie is the third in a series of studies designed to understand microplastics in tributaries and their fate after entering the Great Lakes.

The Great Waters Research Collaborative has announced a request for applications for bench-scale testing services of novel technologies to treat ballast water in the Great Lakes System. Applications are due April 7, 2021.