Tag: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
Time Magazine just released a list of the world’s most influential individuals of 2010.
They include pioneers, pop stars and politicians.
Is the Great Lakes region adequately represented? Who did Time miss?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Sunday released its final version of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan. The plan spells out the agency’s goals and benchmarks for fixing up the world’s largest freshwater system through 2014.
The document updates a draft of the plan that was released in December and was open to public comment until Jan. 8. The EPA pulled the old version from its Web site, but since I had a copy sitting on my hard drive, I though I’d take a look at what’s changed.
The final …
Editors note: This story is part of an occasional series of Echo reports on the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
By Allison Bush, bushalli@msu.edu
Great Lakes Echo
Aug. 20, 2009
Preventing shipborne organisms from damaging the Great Lakes ecosystem is one target of the Obama Administration’s $475 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
Ships carry ballast water to make them more stable as their cargo is offloaded. When they take on more cargo, they flush the ballast back into the lake or ocean. That water can carry from foreign ports plants and animals that compete with native …
By Allison Bush, bushalli@msu.edu
Great Lakes Echo
Aug. 14, 2009
Great Lakes officials are anxious for the Obama Administration to appoint the region’s top Environmental Protection Agency administrator.
“The appointment is always important, but for (the Great Lakes states), right now it’s absolutely critical,” said Andy Buchsbaum, executive director of the National Wildlife Federation’s Great Lakes region. “For the first time in history, we could get millions and millions of dollars from Congress, and the administrator is important to making sure the money is spent well.”
The Chicago-based Region 5 administrator is responsible for the …
By Sarah Coefield, coefield@msu.edu
Great Lakes Echo
Aug. 13, 2009
Some Great Lakes brownfields will turn green if Congress passes a $475 million restoration package.
Literally.
The U.S. Forest Service seeks $2 million of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to transform unusable industrial lots into parks and trailways – and clean up some contaminants in the process.
While the forest service has long restored natural vegetation and has an urban forestry division, this will be its first foray into phytoremediation, said Steven Davis, a watershed specialist with the forest service’s Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry …
