EPA, Regional Leaders Announce Great Lakes Week

On Wednesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other participating organizations announced details of the first-ever Great Lakes Week scheduled for October 2011 in Detroit, Mich. The event—themed “Working Together, Taking Action”—will bring representatives of U.S. and Canadian governments together with a broad coalition of public and private groups to highlight efforts to implement solutions for the lakes’ most pressing problems.



 The event advances President Obama’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the largest investment in the Great Lakes in two decades. The special week also gathers the annual meetings and conferences of various organizations in one place, making it one of the most wide-ranging Great Lakes summits in history.



The following officials will be present: Cameron Davis, senior advisor to the EPA Administrator of the Great Lakes; Lana Pollack, U.S. section chair of Intl. Joint Commission; Jennifer Hill, field director of Healing our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition; and Carol J. Miller, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Wayne State University.

Source: EPA