Action Alert: Urge Representatives to Restore Great Lakes Restoration Funding
People enjoy the harbor in Duluth, Minn. over the fourth of July weekend. Photo credit: Flickr/Sharon Mollerus. In the wake of the President’s budget release two weeks ago and on the heels of Great...
View ArticleAction Alert: Sign-on Letter Circulates to Restore Great Lakes Funding
Sturgeon Sloughs, in Michigan’s upper peninsula. Photo courtesy of Ducks Unlimited. With cuts to Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding in President Obama’s budget request for FY 2017, members of...
View ArticleRecord number of representatives urge appropriators to restore Great Lakes...
A letter circulating in the House of Representatives since February in response to President Obama’s proposed budget closed on Monday with a record number of 55 signatories. The president’s budget...
View ArticleU.S. House Passes Vital Great Lakes Bill
Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition urges Senate to Act to ensure that the national maintains commitment to Great Lakes People use the Great Lakes for swimming, boating, and wildlife watching....
View ArticleAction Alert: Urge U.S. House Members to support Water Resources and...
A letter is being circulated by the Great Lakes Task Force in the U.S. House in support of the Water Resources and Development Act and proposals that would benefit the Great Lakes. Two different...
View ArticleGreat Lakes Update from Washington, D.C.
Two pieces of news from Washington, D.C. which may be of interest to folks in the Great Lakes region, both of which pertain to the reconciliation process that is starting for the Water Resources and...
View ArticleAction Alert: Urge Representatives to Sign On to Support GLRI Funding
A letter in support of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative fiscal year 2018 funding is circulating in the House of Representatives. We’re urging Representatives in the Great Lakes region to sign on...
View ArticleUpdated Action Alert: Extended Deadline to Urge Representatives to Support...
Read the final letter here. A letter in support of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative fiscal year 2018 funding is circulating in the House of Representatives and the deadline has been extended....
View ArticleGreat Lakes Update: Specter of Drastic Budget Cuts Looms
We’re hearing that the Trump Administration’s proposed budget drastically slashes EPA funding—including the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative from $300 million to $10 million. See this twitter post...
View ArticleAction Alert: Urge House Members to Support Great Lakes Restoration...
U.S. Reps. David Joyce (R-Ohio) and Sander Levin (D-Mich.) are currently circulating a Dear Colleague letter in support of a letter to Chairman Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) and Ranking Member Betty McCollum...
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