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States and Cities Launch Initiative to Modernize the Chicago Area Waterway System and Protect the Great Lakes From Asian Carp
CHICAGO, July 22 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — Today, Great Lakes states and cities joined together to announce an initiative that seeks to transform water management and transportation in the Chicago region for the 21st Century, while safeguarding the Great Lakes from economic and ecological damage caused by Asian carp and other biological invasions from the Mississippi River basin. A team led by the Great Lakes Commission and the Great Lakes and St.
WI: A river’s reckoning: The Chicago River was engineered a century ago to carry away the city’s waste, but today it is full of trouble for all the Great Lakes
First of two parts. Chicago likes to think of the filth flowing in its namesake river as nobody’s business but its own, and for most of the last century that…
Feds outline plan to nurse Great Lakes to health
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The Obama administration has developed a five-year blueprint for rescuing the Great Lakes, a sprawling ecosystem plagued by toxic contamination, shrinking wildlife habitat and invasive species.
Feds prepare to brief public on Asian carp plan
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Federal officials are preparing to brief the public on their strategy for preventing Asian carp from infesting the Great Lakes. Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency…
Fight over Asian carp could sink jobs
The place where the Chicago River meets Lake Michigan is the front line of the battle against the Asian Carp. It’s also the place where environmental concerns butt up against…
Activists ask cut off waterways to protect lakes from Asian carp
Permanently severing a man-made link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system is the only sure way to protect the lakes from voracious Asian carp, scientists and activists…
US to commit $78.5 million to Asian carp fight
The Obama administration says it will spend $78.5 million to halt the giant Asian carp, which officials fear could spread and possibly endanger the Great Lakes region’s $7 billion fishing…