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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...