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Great Expectations
Big Great Lakes cleanup plan gets an OK, but no federal funds |
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13 Dec 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Great Expectations Big Great Lakes cleanup plan gets an OK, but no federal funds U.S. EPA administrator Stephen Johnson and a bipartisan coalition of Midwestern lawmakers and officials approved a 15-year strategy to restore the Great Lakes on Monday. But the Bush administration says it won't fund the plan, which may cost up to $20 billion. The strategy to pull the lakes back from imminent ecologica ... |
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| Topics: environmental restoration, Great Lakes, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Tit for Habitat
Habitat conservation plans poorly monitored, sporadically effective |
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03 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Tit for Habitat Habitat conservation plans poorly monitored, sporadically effective Today, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer kicks off a big three-day series on the increasingly ubiquitous but nonetheless poorly understood and poorly monitored phenomenon of habitat conservation plans (HCPs). Congress authorized the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to administer such plans in 1982, but it wasn't until the late '90s that ... |
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| Topics: environmental restoration, news, politics (all these topics) |
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