Posted on December 21, 2015
By Garret Ellison, MLive Media Group
Environmental groups and lawmakers say the Great Lakes did well in the 2016 federal omnibus spending bill, which includes millions of federal dollars for pollution cleanup, habitat protection, waterway projects and port dredging.
The year-end appropriations bill, a $1.1 trillion spending package that funds the federal government through September, includes $1.25 billion for U.S. harbor maintenance and navigation projects and $300 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), a multi-year federal program that oversees pollution cleanup, funds habitat restoration and fights invasive species.
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