EPA plans to spend $2.2B to protect Great Lakes

Here is an under-reported story that shows what a difference a Democratic White House makes over a Republican White House. The Environmental Protection Agency plans to spend 2.2 billion dollars over the next five years to clean up pollution and halt the spread of invasive species in the Great Lakes. This would never happen with a Republican administration.

That plan, announced Sunday, marks a "significant investment" in fighting some of the biggest environmental threats to the nation's largest freshwater lakes, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said. The EPA will use the money to prevent beach pollution, clean up toxic hot spots, and fight Asian carp and other invasive species. That effort "will leave the Great Lakes better for the next generation than the condition in which we inherited them," Jackson said. Link