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• EPA, Partners Celebrate Completion of Restoration Work in Muskegon Lake Area of Concern in Michigan

  Decades-long effort cost $70 million, required federal, state and local partnership

  EPA News Release: EPA, Partners Celebrate Completion of Restoration Work in Muskegon Lake Area of Concern in Michigan

  • Release Date: May 24, 2022

• Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards over $725,000 to Address Trash in Lakes Erie and Michigan

  City of Erie, Pennsylvania, and University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh to implement trash collection projects to reduce trash in Lake Erie and Lake Michigan

  EPA News Release: Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards over $725,000 to Address Trash in Lakes Erie and Michigan

  • Release Date: September 23, 2021

• Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards $417,830 to University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

  EPA News Release: Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards $417,830 to University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

  • Release Date: September 23, 2021

• Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards $309,300 to City of Erie, Pennsylvania

  City to install two trash collection systems at Garrison Run

  EPA News Release: Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards $309,300 to City of Erie, Pennsylvania

  • Release Date: September 23, 2021

• Four Piping Plovers Hatch in Toledo, Ohio

  U.S. EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding supports the recovery of this endangered species

  EPA News Release: Four Piping Plovers Hatch in Toledo, Ohio

  • Release Date: July 2, 2021

• Senior EPA Officials Announce Great Lakes Grants During Visit to Superior and Duluth

  Funding for ballast water research highlighted

  EPA News Release: Senior EPA Officials Announce Great Lakes Grants During Visit to Superior and Duluth

  • Release Date: September 8, 2020

• EPA Requests Applications for $6 Million Grant to Monitor Contaminants in Great Lakes Fish

  EPA News Release: EPA Requests Applications for $6 Million Grant to Monitor Contaminants in Great Lakes Fish

  • Release Date: July 27, 2020

• EPA Announces Over $12 Million in Grants to Improve Great Lakes Fisheries and Michigan Water Quality

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Over $12 Million in Grants to Improve Great Lakes Fisheries and Michigan Water Quality

  • Release Date: July 27, 2020

• EPA announces finalists for GLRI grants to address nutrients in the Great Lakes

  Projects to receive $11.5 million in funding, including $2 million for water-quality trading projects

  EPA News Release: EPA announces finalists for GLRI grants to address nutrients in the Great Lakes

  • Release Date: December 19, 2019

• EPA announces grant to enhance mussel populations in New York’s lower Grasse River

  Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe receives $160,000 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant

  EPA News Release: EPA announces grant to enhance mussel populations in New York’s lower Grasse River

  • Release Date: December 18, 2019

• EPA requests applications for $2 million in funding for Great Lakes trash-free water projects

  For the first time, GLRI grants available to keep trash out of the Great Lakes

  EPA News Release: EPA requests applications for $2 million in funding for Great Lakes trash-free water projects

  • Release Date: December 16, 2019

• EPA announces grant to restore habitat in Indiana’s Grand Calumet River Area of Concern

  Indiana Department of Natural Resources receives a $100,000 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant

  EPA News Release: EPA announces grant to restore habitat in Indiana’s Grand Calumet River Area of Concern

  • Release Date: December 10, 2019

• EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler Visits Cleveland, Announces Trash-Free Great Lakes Grant Program

  For the first time, EPA will be requesting competitive applications for GLRI funding for trash-free water project grants in the Great Lakes

  EPA News Release: EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler Visits Cleveland, Announces Trash-Free Great Lakes Grant Program

  • Release Date: July 19, 2019