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 , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
With great fanfare, the federal and state agencies who are now calling themselves the “Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee” (formerly known as the “Rapid Response Group”) released a new document on Monday they call the “Asian Carp Control Strategy Framework.” ...
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 , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
Asian carp? You got served. That’s right – the big, hungry invasive fish that are threatening to eat their way through the Great Lakes are going to court. In fact, straight to the top – we’ll see the Asian carp...
Posted by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
Door County, Wisconsin is famous for their fish boils. We are talking about massive kettles of Lake Michigan white fish with potatoes, onions and the perfect spices boiling in giant bonfires on the beach. Yum, it's a great tradition that...
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...
Posted by Thom Cmar in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
I'm off to Cleveland this morning to testify at the Great Lakes regional meeting of the National Ocean Policy Task Force. As a native Ohioan, I am excited to return to my home state and take this important opportunity to...
