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• Press Release: Mayors applaud Wisconsin efforts towards ratification of the Great Lakes Compact (April 9, 2008).

 

• Members of Congress James Oberstar, Earl Blumenauer, and Eddie Bernice Johnson submitted a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office to explore the creation of a Clean Water Trust Fund (January 2008)

 

• Town of Ajax report and letter to Minister of the Environment John Gerretson on Proposed Provincial Actions to Limit Phosphorous Loadings from Sewage Treatment Plants in the Lake Simcoe Basin (February 19, 2008)

 

• Press release on responses from U.S. Presidential Candidates to questions from GLSLCI Mayors (February 18, 2008)
  • Senator Barack Obama response

 

• Article featuring Mayor Ellen Anderson from the Town of the Blue Mountains on key Great Lakes and St. Lawrence issues from the Owen Sound Sun Times, Don Crosby (January 2, 2008).

• Press Release: Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Mayors Issue Challenge to Elected Officials and Governments (December 14, 2007)

Mayors' Challenge

Presidential Questionnaire

 

• Great Lakes Governors send a letter to presidential candidates calling for support to protect and restore the Great Lakes (November 8,2007)
  
  
• The United States House and Senate have voted to override the President's veto of the Water Resources Development Act 2007.  To read more, click here. (November 8, 2007)

 

• Press Release: Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Mayors urge Congress to override President's veto of the Water Resources Development Act 2007 (November 6, 2007)

 

• Click here to see the Town of The Blue Mountains Resolution on plastic bottled water

 

• Click here to see the latest on municipal actions regarding the BP Whiting refinery and increased pollution into Lake Michigan

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (October 1, 2007)

 

• Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Special Report on the 2007 Annual Meeting (September 2007) and link to presentations from the meeting

 

• From Rust to Blue: Jobs, the Economy, and Great Lakes Restoration, a Michigan Land Use Institute Special Report (September 2007)

 

• Testing the Waters 2007: Swimming in the Great Lakes, a report by the National Resources Defense Council (September 2007)

 

• America’s North Coast: A Benefit-Cost Analysis of a Program to Protect and Restore the Great Lakes, Researched and Written by John C. Austin, Soren Anderson, Paul N. Courant, and Robert E. Litan (September 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (September 15, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (September 1, 2007)

 

• Read about the late President Andreé P. Boucher

 

• Click here to view Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell's video question for the CNN/You Tube Republican Debate

 

• Chicago Tribune: "BP says it won't increase pollution"

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (August 15, 2007)

 

• Marquette, MI City Commission Resolution regarding BP Whiting Refinery (August 13, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (August 1, 2007)

 

• Overview of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Economy, prepared by World Business Chicago.  For an extended version, click here.

 

• Click here to view presentations made at the GLSLCI 2007 Annual Meeting held in Grand Rapids on July 11-13th, 2007.

 

• Highland Park, IL City Council resolution regarding BP Whiting Refinery increased pollution to Lake Michigan (July 23, 2007)

 

• H. Con. Res. 187, regarding the increase pollution to Lake Michigan by BP, was approved by the US House of Representatives (July 25, 2007)

 

• Letter from Mayors of Milwaukee, Racine, Superior, Green Bay and Sheboygan Wisconsin to Indiana Department of Environmental Management (July 24, 2007)

 

• Radio clip from Paul McDonald, AM800 CKLW Radio, Windsor, Ontario regarding the BP Refinery (July 24, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Letter to the Editor of the Chicago Tribune regarding BP Whiting Refinery (July 20, 2007)

 

• Press Release: GLSLCI Mayors Call for Less Pollution from BP Refinery to Lake Michigan
  (July 18, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI 2006-2007 Annual Report (July 16, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (July 15, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (July 1, 2007)

 

• Redesigning the Governance Structure of the Great Lakes: A Report to the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative by Mauricio Gonzalez, MPP and Duncan Kisia, MPP of the University of Chicago, Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy (June 29, 2007)

 

• Press Release: GLSLCI Annual Meeting 2007 (June 27, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (June 1, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (May 15, 2007)

 

• Windsor Star article on City of Windsor Water Infrastructure Project (May 11, 2007)

 

• Press Release: Mayor Brian McMullan's Testimony on the Safeguarding and Sustaining Ontario's Water Act, 2007 (May 9, 2007)

 

• The Great Lakes: An Analysis of Federal Specific,

  Federal General and State Programs by Braulia Espinosa, Kara Knack and Ginger Pitch of the University of Illinois Chicago (May 3, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (May 1, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (April 15, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (April 1, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (March 15, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (March 1, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (February 15, 2007)

 

• Kingston, Ontario Whig-Standard editorial on GLSLCI membership (February 14, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (February 1, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (January 15, 2007)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (December 15, 2006)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (December 1, 2006)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (November 15, 2006)

 

• Press Release: GLSLCI provides comments on US Coast Guard proposal for weapons training on Great Lakes (November 13, 2006)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (November 1, 2006)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (October 15, 2006)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (October 1, 2006)

 

• GLSLCI Briefing (September 15, 2006)

 

• Press Release: Mayor Becker testifies to Congress on the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration (September 2006)

 

• Mayor Rigby Receives the first His Worship Timothy Rigby Award for Local Leadership in Protecting and Restoring the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River (July 2006)

• Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Intiative 2006 Annual Report (June 2006)

• Remarks of the Honourable Laurel Broten, Ontario's Minister of Environment (April 2006)

• Press Release: Mayor Daley Supports Federal Legislation to Protect the Great Lakes (April 2006)

• Hegewisch Marsh Receives Grants for Restoration (February 2006)

• Great Lakes St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Conference, June 21-23, 2006 (February 2006)

• Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement (December 2005)

 

• Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact (December 2005)

 

• The International Joint Commission invites views on the future of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (September 2005)

• Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Annual Report (September 2005)

• Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Quarterly Newsletter, Volume 3 (July 2005)

• Great Lakes Cities Initiative Quarterly Newsletter, Volume 2 (May 2005)

• MIT Honors Daley for Greening Chicago (March 30, 2005)

• 19th Annual Conference of the International Association of Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Mayors, Quebec City, May 25 - 27, 2005 (March 2005)

• Canadian Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River mayors chart a course for the care of the world's largest freshwater system (March 2005)

• Great Lakes Cities Initiative Quarterly Newsletter, Volume 1 (January 2005)

 

• Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Meeting in Chicago, IL (December 3, 2004).
  • Remarks of Governor Jim Doyle, Governor of Wisconsin
  • Tribal Presider's Comments - Chairman Frank Ettawageshik, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians

• Greening the Heartland 2005: Cost, Practice and Policy. Presented by the City of Chicago, sponsored by the U.S. Green Building Council 's Chicago and Other Regional Heartland Chapters.

• 2004 Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Mayors' Conference, July 14-16, 2004
  • Conference program
  • Conference agenda
  • Conference Presentations
    • U.S. EPA Administrator Leavitt
    • Governor Doyle of Wisconsin
    • Richard Filippi: Waterfront Cleanup
    • Terry Geddes: Waterfront Cleanup
    • Chris Ronayne: Waterfront Development & Recreation
    • Peter Murphy: Waterfront Development & Recreation
    • Robert Papp: Water & Port Security
    • Timothy Rigby: Stormwater Management & Nonpoint Source Runoff
    • Gary Fujita: Stormwater Management & Nonpoint Source Runoff
    • Gary Becker: Beach Management
    • Marcia Jimenez: Invasive Species
    • Jennifer Milton: Climate Change
    • Sam Speck: Protecting & Restoring Our Great Lakes
    • Jerry Grafstein: Greening of the Great Lakes: Chciago and Toronto
  • Conference Resolutions
    • Resolution 1: Great Lakes Cities Initiative & International Association of Great Lakes & St. Lawrences Mayors collaboration
    • Resolution 2: Support for aquatic invasive species prevention and legislation
    • Resolution 3: Combined sewer overflows
    • Resolution 4: Mercury contamination from power plants
    • Resolution 5: Water levels in Lake Michigan, Huron and Georgian Bay
    • Resolution 6: Swimming bans
    • Resolution 7: Affirming the important role of Mayors in Great Lakes policy
    • Resolution 8: Improved coordination among federal agencie

• Executive Order establishing Great Lakes Interagency Task Force and promoting regional collaboration of national significance for the Great Lakes, May 18, 2004
  • EPA Press Release
  • Mayor Daley Press Release

• Great Lakes Cities Initiative Director testifies in support of federal legislation to address ballast water dumping, GLCI Press Release (March 25, 2004)

• Mayors ask EPA Chief to support Great Lakes restoration, GLCI Press Release (January 23, 2004)

• Governor Taft's remarks at the Great Lakes Cities Initiative Winter Meeting (December 12, 2003)

• GLCI Winter 2003 meeting (December 12, 2003)

  - Meeting summary

  - Meeting agenda

  - Meeting ppt presentation

  - Scheraga (USEPA) climate change presentation

 

• Mayoral group to set goals for Great Lakes
  By Tom Henry, The Toledo Blade (July 28, 2003)

 

• A more vocal voice for the Great Lakes
  Northwest Indiana Times (July 24, 2003)

 

• Great Lakes communities will have voice
  By Tim Zorn, Gary Post-Tribune (July 23, 2003)
  
• Daley uses clout to help guard Great Lakes
  By Kelly Quigley, Chicago Business (July 22, 2003)

 

• Mayor Daley Announces New Great Lakes Cities Initiative Office in Chicago, Press Release, Chicago Mayor's Office (July 19, 2003)

 

• New Great Lakes group seeks input from mayors
  By Sarah Kellogg, Booth Newspapers (June 9, 2003)

 

• "Great Lakes mayors seek more control"
  Gary Washburn, Chicago Tribune, Metro Section 2, Friday, (November 8, 2002) page 2

 

• "Daley back plan to save Great Lakes"
  by Fran Spielman, Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, (November 8, 2002) Metro page 14.

  Many articles above are found online at the
  Great Lakes Environmental Directory.