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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) The nephew of a man who perished on the shipwrecked Edmund Fitzgerald is trying to save an endangered Great Lakes freighter whose crew at the time tried to help the doomed ship.

The Arthur M. Anderson was trailing the the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975. Its crew risked their own safety by turning back into the storm after the Fitzgerald disappeared from the radar screen.

The Anderson and 12 other steamships are in danger of being forced to permanent shore duty by a proposed clear-air rule from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. U.S. Rep. David Obey is trying to push through an exemption, but John Soyring of Green Bay is worried it would just be a stay of execution. Full Story