{"id":5067,"date":"2019-05-15T15:23:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/wojno\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2019-05-15T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:23:38","slug":"senate-passes-wojno-resolution-to-urge-great-lakes-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/wojno\/2019\/05\/15\/senate-passes-wojno-resolution-to-urge-great-lakes-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate passes Wojno Resolution to Urge Great Lakes Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Resolution asks Congress to fully fund Great Lakes Restoration Initiative<\/em><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LANSING \u2014 Today, the Michigan Senate passed Sen.\u00a0<strong>Paul Wojno<\/strong>\u2019s (D-Warren)\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/legislature.mi.gov\/doc.aspx?2019-SR-0025\" target=\"_blank\">resolution to ask Congress to fully fund the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative<\/a>\u00a0(GLRI) in their 2020 fiscal year budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe investments we have made to protect our Great Lakes should continue, and now is not the time to neglect our state\u2019s most precious resource,\u201d Sen. Wojno said. \u201cI want to thank our congressional delegation for coming together in a bipartisan manner to insist that full funding be maintained in the budget.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initial budget proposal out of Washington, D.C. in March had requested funding to the GLRI be cut by $270 million, along with a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2019\/politics\/trump-budget-2020\/?utm_term=.f295a0da7d7a\" target=\"_blank\">31% cut to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA) budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GLRI was launched in 2010 with the help of the EPA. The initiative has invested more than $3 billion into restoring the Great Lakes over the last decade, including $600 million for more than 1,100 projects in Michigan alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research led by the University of Michigan in 2018 has also\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GLRI-Fact-Sheet-20180924.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">found that for every $1 invested in cleaning up the Great Lakes, $3.35 of additional economic activity in the Great Lakes region<\/a>\u00a0is generated.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to Sen. Wojno\u2019s testimony in the Senate Natural Resources Committee, 29 well-respected organizations submitted cards of support, including: the Clinton River Watershed Council, Michigan Association of Counties, Michigan League of Conservation Voters, Alliance for the Great Lakes, National Wildlife Federation, Ducks Unlimited, Sterling Sportsmen\u2019s Club, Sierra Club Michigan Chapter, Detroit Audobon, Michigan United Conservation Clubs, and the Michigan Environmental Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resolution asks Congress to fully fund Great Lakes Restoration Initiative LANSING \u2014 Today, the Michigan Senate passed Sen.\u00a0Paul Wojno\u2019s (D-Warren)\u00a0resolution to ask Congress to fully fund the Great Lakes Restoration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - 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