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Issue Position: Energy & Environment - Great Lakes

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2011
Issues: Energy

Great Lakes

The Great Lakes are a prized natural treasure of our entire nation, and it is our responsibility to ensure that they are protected. It is especially important that we preserve the biodiversity and the ecosystem of the Great Lakes.

Populations of plants and animals have been destroyed as a result of rapid reproduction rates and gross levels of consumption by species such as the Asian Carp fish. This phenomenon has the potential to endanger our environmental sustainability and threatens to create an imbalance in the Great Lakes ecosystem.

I am committed to enhancing environmental quality and economic development throughout the Great Lakes basin. For instance, I support several bills that would increase funding for clean-up programs and address the growing Asian Carp population in the Great Lakes.


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