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Monday, January 25, 2010
Environment - "Pressure builds as governors seek seat at Obama carp 'summit'"
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a story by Dan Egan that begins:
The political heat is cranking up on President Barack Obama to take more dramatic steps to block the advance of Asian carp into the Great Lakes.On Monday, the attorneys general from Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania sent a letter to the president asking for a seat at the table for the Asian carp "summit" the administration has scheduled for early next month.
That meeting was requested last week by Gov. Jim Doyle and Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm following news that scientists have detected Asian carp DNA in the open waters of Lake Michigan.
On the same day the news broke of the apparent breach of the leaky defense system to protect Lake Michigan, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Obama administration and decided not to order two lakeside navigation locks slammed shut in a last-ditch attempt to keep the carp out.
The administration has agreed to meet with leaders of Great Lakes states to discuss strategies to keep the over-sized, leaping fish from establishing a breeding population in Lake Michigan.
But it has apparently not budged on the push to shut the locks, a move that lock closure opponents say could trigger flooding in the Chicago area and have a dramatic impact on the Chicago barge industry.
Yet the drumbeat to shut the locks persists, with last week a Michigan congressman introducing legislation that would force the closure.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 25, 2010 05:03 PM
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