EDITORIAL: Great Lakes restoration funds must be saved

Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 12:05 p.m.

It is a watershed moment for Congress, particularly the Great Lakes delegations. They must join together, in a bipartisan manner, to preserve President Barack Obama's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative ...

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U.S. help for Great Lakes in danger; preservationists step up campaign

Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 12:05 p.m.

Great Lakes scientists and environmental groups are dramatically stepping up their lobbying efforts in Congress to try to avoid a 50% cut in funding for Great Lakes restoration ...

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Harbor Maintenance Act of 2011 introduced

Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 12:05 p.m.

U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., introduced a bipartisan bill this week designed to fund critical operations and maintenance of the nation's harbors, including significant needs in the Great Lakes System ...

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Ancient riverbed hints at big storehouse of water

Published Feb. 18, 2011 at 12:05 p.m.

There's water - possibly lots of it - in the gravel-filled bed of an ancient river system that used to flow south of Waterloo southeast toward Hamilton and southwest into what we now call Lake Ontario ...

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Activists: Cuts delay Great Lakes sewage fix-ups

Published Feb. 18, 2011 at 12:05 p.m.

Great Lakes advocacy groups say proposed federal budget cuts would damage efforts to deal with one of the region's biggest environmental problems -- sewage overflows ...

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US House defeats proposal to close Chicago shipping locks to protect Lake Michigan from carp

Published Feb. 18, 2011 at 12:05 p.m.

The U.S. House rejected a proposal Thursday to force the closure of Chicago-area shipping locks that could provide an opening to the Great Lakes for voracious Asian carp, a potential threat to native fish species and the region's economy ...

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No rush job on carp study

Published Feb. 18, 2011 at 5:25 a.m.

The public is clamoring for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to speed up its five-year study on how to permanently block Asian carp from migrating up the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and into Lake Michigan, but Army Corps officials say it's going to take time - at least another four years ...

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Obama proposes full funding for land and water conservation program

Published Feb. 17, 2011 at 12:05 p.m.

President Obama outlined a plan Wednesday to fully fund a program that would allow federal and state governments to protect land and water throughout the country ...

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Coalition wants more Great Lakes support

Published Feb. 17, 2011 at 12:05 p.m.

When President Barack Obama released his 2012 budget it shows $350 million dedicated to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative - a reduction of $125 million from the 2010 budget of $475 million and an increase of $50 million from the amount the president requested for the 2011 budget ...

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EDITORIAL: Don't decimate plan for Great Lakes cleanup

Published Feb. 17, 2011 at 12:05 p.m.

As much as we would like to have funding for Great Lakes restoration continue at the levels proposed in 2008, we can certainly understand that the program must be reduced in scope as federal and state governments struggle with budget deficits ...

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