Great Lakes Today

Here's what Great Lakes could lose under Trump budget

Great Lakes Today | By Dave Rosenthal

Published February 13, 2018 at 12:34 PM EST

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President Trump's continued push to slash funding for environmental programs would have a huge impact on the Great Lakes region.

His 2019 spending plan would cut funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative from $300 million to $30 million. That money pays for a wide range of projects, including pollution cleanup, wetlands restoration and wildlife protection.

Here are examples of projects that would be threatened by federal budget cuts; they were part of Troubled Waters, a Great Lakes Today series:

A pollution cleanup in the Lake Superior basin,

The fight to keep Asian carp out of Lake Michigan,

Research on Lake Erie's algae blooms,

A dam removal near Lake Huron, and

Sturgeon recovery in Lake Ontario.

Tug boat pushes barge past electric barrier that helps to keep Asian carp out of Lake Michigan.

Dam removal project aims to help river in the Lake Huron basin.

Scientists seek strategies to combat algae blooms in western Lake Erie.

by Biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service preapre to examine a lake sturgeon near Lake Ontario.