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LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox announced that his office filed suit Monday (July 19th) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to force the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago to take emergency action to block Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan, [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) has joined 13 of his Michigan colleagues in support of the bipartisan Permanent Prevention of Asian Carp Act, H.R. 5625, which was introduced in the U.S. House yesterday (June 29th) and the U.S. Senate Wednesday (June 30th). The legislation would require the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), a member of the congressional Great Lakes Task Force, today reinforced his calls to close the Chicago locks to prevent Asian carp from infiltrating the Great Lakes Watershed.
Upton is a cosponsor of the CARP ACT, H.R. 4472, which will immediately close the locks in the Chicago Area [...]
Thursday (February 18th), Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) and Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox will join local business leaders, fishermen and conservationists to discuss the alarming threat Asian carp pose to Lake Michigan and the entire Great Lakes watershed. The forum at the St. Joseph Public Library is open to the public. Both Attorney General [...]
LANSING – Governor Jennifer Granholm Monday (February 8th) said that a proposal unveiled by the White House falls short of protecting the Great Lakes from the threat posed by Asian carp and continued her call for the locks in Illinois to be closed to protect the ecosystem and the $9 billion boating and $7 billion [...]
LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox Thursday (February 4th) filed a renewed motion with the U.S. Supreme Court asking for a preliminary injunction to close Chicago-area locks because of new information that became available after the Court denied the original motion on January 19th.
Two Southwest Michigan lawmakers are asking for the public’s help in protecting the Great Lakes, calling on residents to sign a petition to stop Asian carp from infiltrating Lake Michigan.
LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox and his counterparts in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have called on the Obama administration to immediately meet with them to hear first-hand the concerns of job makers and families across the region over the immediate threat of Asian carp.
“It is our hope the bi-partisan team of Attorneys [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – The Michigan Congressional Delegation continues its aggressive push to protect the Great Lakes from an invasion of Asian carp, calling on federal agencies to quickly finish and submit to Members a comprehensive response plan by February 5, 2010.
State Rep. Tonya Schuitmaker Thursday (January 14th) introduced a resolution urging President Obama to take immediate action to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes.
Asian carp is an invasive species of fish that competes for food against native fish populations such as trout and bass. Scientists worry that local fish populations will be decimated [...]