Blog
July 30, 2024
New Targeting Strategies to Fight Algal Blooms
This August marks the 10-year anniversary of when residents of Toledo, Ohio awoke to urgent warnings not to drink or use their tap water. Half a million people were unable […]
Press Release
April 3, 2024
New MDARD Partnership Will Improve Water Quality Monitoring
LANSING, MI (April 3, 2024) – Nutrient pollution is a severe threat to water quality across the Great Lakes region and is particularly important in the Western Basin of Lake […]
Blog
February 20, 2024
Top 5 Great Lakes Federal Policy Priorities for 2024
Significant progress continues to be made in protecting and restoring the Great Lakes, but much more needs to be done. Although increased federal funding from the Infrastructure Investment Act these […]
Press release
February 6, 2024
Health of the Lakes and Strength of Local Economies Relies on Reauthorization of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 6, 2024) – Today, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI), and Representative David Joyce (R-OH) sponsored the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative […]
DC Update
January 24, 2024
Are Great Lakes Priorities Advancing After a Year of Divided Government?
At the beginning of 2023, we announced an ambitious Great Lakes federal policy agenda. We noted that it was the start of a new Congress and an era of divided […]
Blog
November 1, 2023
Charting the Future of the Great Lakes: Insights from the HOW Conference and Governors’ Summit
Note: This blog was co-written by President & CEO Joel Brammeier and Vice President of Policy and Strategic Engagement Crystal M.C. Davis. For four days in Cleveland on the shores […]
Diving Deep for Solutions
October 4, 2023
Complicated Crops: Agriculture is a major economic engine in the Great Lakes, and poses the greatest threat to their waters
For our Diving Deep for Solutions series, we commissioned author and journalist Kari Lydersen to examine big issues facing the lakes today and how our expert team at the Alliance […]
Press Release
September 28, 2023
Plan to Improve Lake Erie Water Quality Lacks Elements Critical for Success
Chicago, IL (September 28, 2023) – Earlier today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S EPA) approved the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed total maximum daily load (TMDL) for the Maumee […]
DC Update
August 23, 2023
Are Great Lakes Priorities Advancing in an Era of Divided Government?
At the beginning of the year, we announced an ambitious Great Lakes federal policy agenda. We also noted that it was the start of a new Congress and an era of […]
Press Release
June 29, 2023
Region not on track to meet phosphorus reductions needed to limit western Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms
Chicago, IL (June 29, 2023) – Earlier today, NOAA and its research partners released the annual western Lake Erie harmful algal bloom forecast. In response, Alliance for the Great Lakes Agriculture […]