Cleaning up the Great Lakes will take buckets of money and a tsunami of political will. More waterpower than the Bush administration is willing to invest, apparently.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-2/115876384645780.xml&coll=6
This is no shock. Since the date of the Bush Great Lakes announcement in 2004, it's been clear that the President merely wanted to get out front of the parade of politicians calling for protection of the Lakes. Ultimately the region's political leaders, Republican and Democratic, must make the Lakes a priority themselves. Chespeake Bay and Florida Everglades programs approved by Congress did not get their primary momentum from presidential endorsements, but instead from home-state legislators.
Posted by Dave at September 21, 2006 06:56 AM