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Bad Bill Undermining Clean Water Act Protections Passes U.S. House

Last week, the U.S. House passed a bill that would deny clear Clean Water Act protections to waters that 1-in-3 Americans—more than 117 million people—depend on for safe drinking water. H.R. 1732, The...

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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...

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Action 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...

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Record 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...

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Action 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...

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Updated 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....

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Great 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...

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Action Alert: Sign On to Urge Appropriators to Fully Fund the Great Lakes...

In the wake of President Trump’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2018, which zeroed out the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative among other critical programs, members of the U.S. House of...

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U.S. House Pushes Back to Restore Great Lakes Funding, In Wake of Proposed...

Ann Arbor, Mich. (March 30, 2017) – In the wake of President Trump’s budget outline released earlier this month that would eliminate Great Lakes restoration programs, 63 Republicans and Democrats in...

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Updated Action Alert: U.S. House Circulates Sign On Letter Urging...

Updated alert! The deadline for this sign on letter has been extended to Thursday, November 2.  While Congress continues to debate funding levels for the current fiscal year, the federal agencies have...

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Action Alert: Urge House Members to Support Great Lakes Restoration...

Rep. David Joyce on a tour of Ashtabula River cleanup thanks to Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding. Photo courtesy of the Ohio Environmental Council. U.S. Reps. David Joyce (R-Ohio) and Sander...

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Action Alert: Increasing Funding for Water Infrastructure

Clean drinking water benefits all of us. Urge your Member of Congress to support State Revolving Funds by signing on to this letter. Photo from iStock Photo. There is another letter circulating in the...

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Action Alert: Contact House Members to Support Great Lakes Restoration Funding

Reps. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) and David Joyce (R-Ohio) are circulating this letter to the Office of Management and Budget in support of one of the coalition’s top priorities: $300 Million for the Great...

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Action Alert: Urge Representatives to Support Extending Clean Water Rule...

Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.), and Don Beyer (D-Va.) are circulating a dear colleague letter to encourage other Representatives to sign on to a letter in support...

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Take Action: Support Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Funding in FY20

In light of the proposed cuts in the President’s budget blueprint, we are looking to our bipartisan Congressional champions to restore funding to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in the FY2020...

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Congress Seeks Boost in Great Lakes Funding

ANN ARBOR, MICH. (July 25, 2019) – A bipartisan group of senators and representatives have introduced legislation to significantly ramp up funding for the successful Great Lakes Restoration Initiative,...

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Great 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...

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Action Alert: Sign On to Urge Appropriators to Fully Fund the Great Lakes...

In the wake of President Trump’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2018, which zeroed out the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative among other critical programs, members of the U.S. House of...

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U.S. House Pushes Back to Restore Great Lakes Funding, In Wake of Proposed...

Ann Arbor, Mich. (March 30, 2017) – In the wake of President Trump’s budget outline released earlier this month that would eliminate Great Lakes restoration programs, 63 Republicans and Democrats in...

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Updated Action Alert: U.S. House Circulates Sign On Letter Urging...

Updated alert! The deadline for this sign on letter has been extended to Thursday, November 2.  While Congress continues to debate funding levels for the current fiscal year, the federal agencies have...

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