Groups Push Back Against Proposed Great Lakes Cuts

President`s Budget Would Cut Great Lakes Cleanup Funding By 90 Percent.

Environmental and conservation groups are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut federal funding for a Great Lakes cleanup program.

Trump’s budget would roll back funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative from $300 million to $30 million.

The Obama-era cleanup program has received bipartisan support in Congress. Todd Ambs, campaign director of Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition, said the president’s proposal should be "dead on arrival."...