Posted by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The entire Great Lakes region is holding its breath, waiting for the Supreme Court to rule on whether to accept jurisdiction over the Asian carp suit that the State of Michigan has filed against Illinois, the Army Corps of Engineers,...
Posted by Thom Cmar in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yesterday, the Illinois Chamber of Commerce released a report which found that an arbitrary, immediate, permanent closure of the navigational locks connecting the Chicago waterway system to Lake Michigan in an effort to stop big, hungry Asian carp from establishing...
Posted by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I got a call last Thursday from a state appeals court in Albany with some great news: the New York court had issued a decision upholding New York’s tough new ballast water standards against a legal challenge from the ports...
Posted by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Even as the Supreme Court today denied Michigan’s request for a temporary closure of the navigational locks between Chicago waterways and Lake Michigan, the Army Corps of Engineers announced new evidence today that Asian carp are in Lake Michigan. I...
Posted by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Poison has been used to repel invading armies throughout history. And it's just about to happen again outside Chicago. In this case, the invading army doesn't come in the form of armed troops... actually, they are fish. But their threat...
