The Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition strives to restore the Great Lakes by securing federal funding and policies to stop sewage contamination, halt invasive species, restore habitat, clean up toxic pollution and reduce runoff pollution from farms and cities.

Policy Priorities – 2011

In 2011, the coalition is focusing on the following federal priorities:

• Great Lakes restoration funding, primarily the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative—the marquee federal Great Lakes restoration program—so that people, communities and businesses can benefit from healthy Lakes.
  
• Passing Great Lakes restoration legislation like the Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act to authorize core Great Lakes programs to ensure that restoration efforts are prioritized, science-based and transparent.
  
• Enacting sound policy to stop the Asian carp—and other aquatic invasive species—from traveling between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River and colonizing U.S. waterways.

For more information, contact the coalition’s policy director, Chad Lord, at clord@npca.org.

Additional Resources:

Learn more about how the Coalition is advancing solutions in Washington, D.C., to restore the Great Lakes, protect drinking water, safeguard public health, create jobs and uphold our way of life.

• Read a fact sheet on the coalition’s 2011 policy priorities
  
• Read a fact sheet on the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
  
• Read coalition testimony and letters to Congress, Obama Administration and federal agencies.
  
• Learn more about annual Great Lakes Day in Washington, D.C.
  
• Read coalition reports