The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will award Green Bay a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Shoreline Cities grant.

Tagged with: EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Lake Michigan

A spending bill crafted by congressional leaders would allocate $300 million to a Great Lakes cleanup that had been threatened with a deep cut during last year's budget battle.

Tagged with: Great Lakes Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

Nowhere has the fervor to cut government down to size been more dramatically on display than in the industrial Midwest.

Tagged with: Great Lakes Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Paul Ryan PCBs Reid Ribble

Federal officials are inviting the 22 largest shoreline cities on the U.S. side of the Great Lakes to apply for grants under an Obama administration program designed to make progress on the region's festering ecological problems.

Tagged with: EPA Great Lakes Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

Federal programs designed to make headway on some of the Great Lakes' most longstanding ecological problems, from harbors caked with toxic sludge to the threat of an Asian carp attack, would lose about 80 percent of their spending under a spending plan approved Tuesday by a Republican-controlled U.S. House panel.

Tagged with: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative sewers

Cities and counties in Wisconsin are looking for ways to pay for water tests that could lead to beach closures after the federal government proposed eliminating money for the tests.

Tagged with: DNR EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Michael Murphy

President Barack Obama's proposed 2014 budget calls for keeping a wide-ranging Great Lakes cleanup program near its current funding level.

Tagged with: Great Lakes Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Obama

The University of Michigan is establishing a research program designed to make sure the federal government bases decisions in its billion-dollar battle to clean up the Great Lakes on solid science, officials said Tuesday.

Tagged with: Alliance for the Great Lakes Great Lakes Great Lakes Restoration Initiative jobs wetlands

The U.S. Forest Service is awarding nearly $3 million to improve the tree canopy and forest cover in the Great Lakes region.

Tagged with: Great Lakes Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says more than $2.6 million in grants are being awarded to help improve water quality at Great Lakes beaches in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Tagged with: contamination EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative St. Clair River