THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United petition Congress to increase the funding for federal Great Lakes research programs because of their losses due to inflation since 1980; these programs incfude, but are not limited to:

1. NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, Michigan;
2. EPA's Large Lakes Research Station, Grosse Ile, Michigan;
3. Great Lakes research programs funded through-the United. States Commerce Department's Sea Grant Program at universities in the Great Lakes Region;
4. US. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Fisheries Center - Great Lakes, Arbor, Michigan
5. NOAA's Great Lakes Research Coordinating Office as specified in the 1987 Clean Water Act.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, Great Lakes United support the full annual eleven million dollars funding level authorized in Congress to implement the Great Lakes Amendment to the Clean Water Act.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the member organizations of Great Lakes United encourage provincial, state, and federal agencies and academic institutions to proceed expeditiously with such research; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United and its member organizations request their regulatory agencies to implement, enforce and monitor voluntary and required actions by shippers and other users of Great Lakes resources, to prevent the further introduction of such exotic organisms; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that members of Great Lakes United organizations, and all users of Great Lakes resources in general, be encouraged to take all appropriate individual actions to prevent the further spread of such exotic organisms in the Great Lakes region.

Powerpoint presentation from "Shifting the Balance", a workshop exploring Extended Producer Responsibility. This presentation explores the concept, range of responsibilities, financial incentives, and government actions towards EPR

This factsheet provides background information and a list of invasive species discovered in the Great Lakes.

THEREFORE, Great Lakes United demands a formal investigation of the Kenosha diversion by the Wisconsin Justice Department, Wisconsin State Legislature. the Council of Great Lakes Governors and the Michigan Attorney General, to determine how it could occur, what state laws were also broken, how to enforce the cessation of the diversion, and any penalties that may be appropriate.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great lakes United create the LABOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE to develop strategies to support efforts establishing programs at the local, state and provincial levels to compensate and retrain workers so affected; in addition, to support labor participation in decisions regarding process changes and production reorganization to achieve zero discharge; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Task Force will work to strengthen and build the alliance between labor and environmental organizations to achieve our common goals.

Energy companies view the lakebeds of the Great Lakes as a "new frontier" for the routing of cross-lake oil and gas pipelines and electric transmission lines. Efforts to harvest high-speed winds have also spurred plans to anchor wind energy systems offshore or along the coasts of the Great Lakes. This factsheet provides an overview of the issue.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Great Lakes United is opposed to the wholesale disposal of these lands to achieve short term objectives of questionable value.

IN AS MUCH AS Land and Water Conservation Funds have been appropriated for the acquisition and development of the Great Lakes National Parks and for acquisition and development of urban parks.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Great Lakes United stands strongly in support of the release of these funds to acquire and complete these parksystems as intended.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT land use changes which would adversely affect the health of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin should be discouraged through economic and regulatory means.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Great Lakes United opposes such land use changes outside the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin which would result in the transport of Great Lakes water beyond the physical limits of the Basin water shed.

Et Cetera.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United requests the:

United States House of Representative Committee on Energy and Commerce; and
the United states Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works; and
the Canadian Special Committee on Acid Rain; and
the Ontario Legislative Committee on Environment,
to hold (oversight) hearings throughout the Great Lakes Basin on the issue of toxic airborne deposition.

I am writing on behalf of Great Lakes United to express our support for the proposal to prohibit the buying or selling of live invasive carps, snakeheads and gobies under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act. Great Lakes United is an international coalition of approximately 200 environmental and conservation organizations, unions, academia and businesses in the U.S., Canada, First Nations and tribes dedicated to the protection and restoration of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin.

Letter to the Attorney Generals of Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, strongly encouraging them to take legal action to stop the invasion of Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes by Asian carp from the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (CSSC) and Cal-Sag Channel. The letter urges them to consider joining with Michigan, should that state take legal action, and to take independent actions to address this Great Lakes emergency.