{"id":312119,"date":"2010-02-12T13:32:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=18308"},"modified":"2010-02-12T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T18:32:09","slug":"feds-prepare-to-brief-public-on-asian-carp-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/312119","title":{"rendered":"Feds prepare to brief public on Asian carp plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Federal officials are preparing to brief the public on their strategy for preventing Asian carp from infesting the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n

Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency and other departments will participate in the meeting Friday afternoon in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Officials from states in the region also will attend. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Obama administration this week released a $78.5 million strategy for keeping the large, hungry carp from entering Lake Michigan through Chicago waterways.<\/p>\n

The government says it’s a solid plan, but critics are unhappy because it doesn’t close two navigational locks through which the invasive carp might reach the lake.<\/p>\n

Indiana joined Illinois on Thursday in opposing closure of the locks. Michigan and five other states want the U.S. Supreme Court to order them closed.<\/p>\n

Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n

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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Federal officials are preparing to brief the public on their strategy for preventing Asian carp from infesting the Great Lakes. Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency and other departments will participate in the meeting Friday afternoon in Chicago. Officials from states in the region also will attend. The Obama administration this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}