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• EPA, MPCA Begin $16 Million Project to Remove Contaminated Sediment from Duluth-Superior Harbor

  EPA News Release: EPA, MPCA Begin $16 Million Project to Remove Contaminated Sediment from Duluth-Superior Harbor

  • Release Date: October 1, 2021

• EPA and MPCA Announce $6M Sediment Cleanup in the St. Louis River Area of Concern in Scanlon, Minnesota

  EPA News Release: EPA and MPCA Announce $6M Sediment Cleanup in the St. Louis River Area of Concern in Scanlon, Minnesota

  • Release Date: August 23, 2021

• EPA Removes Ohio’s Ashtabula River from Binational List of Areas of Concern on the Great Lakes

  Nearly $70 million for cleanup and restoration results in Ohio’s first area of concern delisting

  EPA News Release: EPA Removes Ohio’s Ashtabula River from Binational List of Areas of Concern on the Great Lakes

  • Release Date: August 19, 2021

• EPA Releases Dredged Material Decision Tool to Help with Sediment Disposal Decisions

  EPA News Release: EPA Releases Dredged Material Decision Tool to Help with Sediment Disposal Decisions

  • Release Date: August 3, 2021

• EPA Funding Helps the Terns Return to Interstate Island in Duluth-Superior

  Reducing predatory pressure: EPA provided $840,000 of Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding to improve terns’ nesting area

  EPA News Release: EPA Funding Helps the Terns Return to Interstate Island in Duluth-Superior

  • Release Date: July 21, 2021

• EPA Selects Two New Members to Great Lakes Advisory Board

  EPA News Release: EPA Selects Two New Members to Great Lakes Advisory Board

  • Release Date: July 8, 2021

• EPA cleanup to continue in St. Louis River Area of Concern in Superior, Wisconsin

  EPA News Release: EPA cleanup to continue in St. Louis River Area of Concern in Superior, Wisconsin

  • Release Date: May 10, 2021

• EPA proposes removing Ashtabula River from “Areas of Concern” list, seeks public comment

  Ohio’s Ashtabula River could become the sixth U.S. location removed from the list of the most environmentally degraded Great Lakes areas

  EPA News Release: EPA proposes removing Ashtabula River from “Areas of Concern” list, seeks public comment

  • Release Date: May 3, 2021

• EPA’s Floating Laboratory Lake Guardian Sails Again

  EPA News Release: EPA’s Floating Laboratory Lake Guardian Sails Again

  • Release Date: April 7, 2021

• EPA cleanup to start in Ohio’s Maumee Area of Concern on Lake Erie

  EPA News Release: EPA cleanup to start in Ohio’s Maumee Area of Concern on Lake Erie

  • Release Date: March 24, 2021