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Washington, DC — Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, sent a
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC-02), Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-09), and Congressman Tom Kean (R-NJ-07) introduced the bipartisan REPO Implementation Act of 2025. This new legislation builds off the REPO for Ukrainians Act, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden as part of the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 and allowed for the repurposing of a sizeable subset of frozen Russian sovereign assets for Ukraine.
Washington, DC — Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, sent a letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright blasting the latest reductions in force (RIF) ordered during the government shutdown.
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by Tom Jackson, Sandusky Register
MARBLEHEAD — The iconic lighthouse in Marblehead has been photographed many times and been depicted in countless artworks.
So it's not a surprise to see it on a color postcard that U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, has been passing out to promote the importance of the Great Lakes and Lake Erie.
The surprise comes from looking at the artist's signature, written in the waters of the lake in the bottom left of watercolor: Marcy Kaptur.
by Tom Jackson, Sandusky Register
SANDUSKY — The U.S. EPA awarded nearly $500,000 of grants Wednesday to Sandusky, Huron and Vermilion to improve parks and beaches along the Lake Erie shore.
The green infrastructure grants will prevent hundreds of thousands of gallons of untreated storm water from running into Lake Erie, making the water cleaner and aiding in the fight against harmful algal blooms.
Here are the grants:
by Jon Stinchcomb -- Port Clinton News Herald
SANDUSKY - Legislators at the national level and local public officials are working together through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in an effort to maintain the health of Lake Erie and its coast.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced more than $2 million in federal funds in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants for new projects throughout the region.
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There is a lot of justifiable anxiety over the sluggish pace of federal action on Asian carp. The feds have been in slow motion in developing a plan to stave off the near-certain doomsday scenario that would play out should Asian carp find their way into the Great Lakes. So, it is up to us.
Yes, Washington will need to play a major financial role, but local institutions — in coordination with local industries — need to be the major players in finding a solution.
by Stephen Koff -- Plain Dealer
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Retired iron workers in Northeast Ohio will get a short reprieve before their pensions could be cut.
It's not as if their union pension plan has turned around financially, however. If anything, new projections show the Iron Workers Local 17 fund -- the retirement fund for the men and women who erected the skyscrapers, bridges and airport towers Clevelanders pass by every day -- will be insolvent by 2024, a year earlier than thought.