Invasive Species
Bob Perciasepe, Deputy Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency President Obama has made restoring and protecting the Great Lakes a national priority. To meet the goals we’ve set the President proposed and Congress approved hundreds of millions of dollars for community-based projects to revitalize and protect the Great Lakes. These investments we are making will...
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NOAA has awarded $2.5 million to the University of Notre Dame and its partners to predict the next wave of invasive species likely to enter the Great Lakes and to identify cost-effective countermeasures. Invasive species such as zebra mussels are already a large problem, costing the region more than $200 million annually by disrupting...
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The Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (RCC) announced today that one Bighead Asian carp has been found in Lake Calumet along the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS). This is the first physical specimen that has been found in the CAWS above the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Electric Barrier System. RCC agencies will enact...
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a new website dedicated exlusively to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
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Grant finalists selected for innovative projects totaling over $160M U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Great Lakes National Program Office today invited 270 finalists to submit applications for a total of $161.450,000 in competitive grant funding under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI). In response to its November 2009 request for grant proposals (RFP), EPA received...
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NOAA’s Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research, in partnership with EPA, has awarded funds to a University of Notre Dame-led partnership to address the invasive species problems in the Great Lakes, will identify sources of introductions and the likelihood of invasion, as well as potential ecological and economic impacts of species that are, or...
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Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Request for Proposals EPA-R5-GL2010-1 Proposals by Great Lakes/Non-Great Lakes States Proposals by Program Area State breakout
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International Joint Commission, on behalf of the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee, held a meeting in Ypsilanti, Michigan February 17, 2010 to discuss plans and get recommendations on Asian carp control efforts. View the captioned video at http://epa.gov/greatlakes/live/carp_michigan/index.html
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U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson, in collaboration with 15 other federal agencies, have made restoring the Great Lakes a national priority. Signaling a commitment beyond measure of past promises, in February 2009, President Obama proposed $475 million for a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (Initiative). This Action...
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