Two notorious Great Lakes invaders—the zebra mussel and the round goby—now play a central role in transferring toxic chemicals called PCBs up the food chain and into Saginaw Bay walleyes, one of that region's most popular sport fish.

SAGINAW, Mich., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pure Michigan advertising campaign is leveraged to secure the 2012 Region II United States Youth Soccer Association tournament to Michigan's Great Lakes Bay Region (Saginaw, Bay and Midland Counties).

To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Phillippa Cannon of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, +1-312-353-6218, cannon.phillippa@epa.gov CHICAGO, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S.

Dow Chemical is preparing to clean up what a government scientist says is the highest level of dioxin contamination ever recorded in a U.S. river or lake.

SAGINAW, Mich. - A find of dioxin at the bottom of the Saginaw River could be the highest level of such contamination ever discovered in the nation's rivers and lakes, according to a federal scientist involved in cleanup efforts downstream from a Dow Chemical Co. plant.