The Common Strategy for Smart Great Lakes is a community-generated set of priorities, strategies, and recommendations for advancing data-driven management and policy in the Great Lakes. It supports systems upgrades to out-of-date monitoring and environmental surveillance structures, and combines resources and energy across the region to better direct capacity, funding, and policy toward combating these pressing challenges.
The webinar will lay out some details and present an opportunity to learn more about Smart Great Lakes from invested regional partners, including:
A welcome from Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, MI-12
Kelli Paige, CEO of the Great Lakes Observing System
J. Val Klump, Associate Dean of the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Kimberly Neely Du Buclet, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD)
Joel Brammeier, CEO of the Alliance for the Great Lakes
Matt McKenna, Director of the Great Lakes Washington Program at the Northeast Midwest Institute, Moderator
New Bills Impacting the Great Lakes Introduced Recently
Several bills have been introduced in Congress over the past month dealing with Great Lakes and water issues. In the U.S. Senate, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) has introduced the Coastal Fellowship Act, which would provide training in coastal management in order to assist coastal ocean and Great Lakes states. In the U.S. House, Representative Steven Palazzo’s (R-MS-4) AQUAA Act, identical to the preexisting Senate version, seeks to promote sustainable offshore aquaculture. In addition, Representative Brian Mast (R-FL-18) introduced legislation that would provide funding to states for water quality projects, and Representative Melanie Ann Stanbury (D-NM-1) introduced legislation aiming to connect Tribal communities with water conservation and efficiency grants.
New legislation recently introduced as well as the progress of previously introduced legislation is being tracked on NEMWI’s Great Lakes Legislative Tracker which is available at: Great Lakes Legislative Tracker
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