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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.
Toledo, OH — Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) today applauded the announcement that the Toussaint Wildlife Area, the 231-acre coastal wetland complex in Ottawa County, will receive $600,000 in a federal award for restoration efforts conducted by Ducks Unlimited, the leading non-profit wildlife restoration organization. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, notified Kaptur this afternoon about the competitive award, which Ducks Unlimited applied for in January 2016 and for which Kaptur sent the attached letter of support.
WASHINGTON, DC– Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) joined the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a research institute within the National Institutes of Health, to announce the two-year award of $147,500 in federal research funds to The University of Toledo’s Department of Biological Sciences research laboratoryfor the purpose of new fertility research entitled, “A Genome-wide Drosophila RNAi Screen for Regulators of Centrosome Reduction.”
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.