A U-S Senate panel has restored 300-million federal dollars for environmental cleanups along the Great Lakes. The Senate Appropriations Committee included the funding in the Interior and Environment budget, after President Donald Trump eliminated the annual allocation in his first federal budget package this past spring. Wisconsin Senate Democrat Tammy Baldwin, a member of the panel, said Monday that preserving the Great Lakes is an “economic necessity” and not just a goal. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative goes back more than 15 years, when a panel commissioned by former President George W. Bush proposed thousands of local cleanup projects totaling billions of dollars. But Congress refused to fund them until former President Barack Obama started proposing annual allocations in 2009.
Senate Panel Restores $300 Million For Great Lakes Cleanups
Nov 21, 2017 | 6:14 AM
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