U.S. federal agencies taking part in the Great Lakes Restoration
Initiative released a report card Wednesday with results from
the 2011 fiscal year. The program's designed to make progress on
some of the region's most pressing environmental problems. The
report says agencies cleaned up 1 million cubic yards of
contaminated sediments and continued work on toxic waste
hotspots. It says the initiative's grants helped protect or
restore 20,000 acres of wetlands and develop technologies to
fight sea lampreys and other invasive species. It says the
program also played a key role in keeping Asian carp from the
lakes and removing river dams that were impeding fish
passageways. Great Lakes Restoration Initiative:
http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/glri/