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NEMWI to Hold Asian Carp
Briefing
on April 30
The Northeast-Midwest Institute and the Asian Carp Regional Coordination Committee are hosting a briefing on
Tuesday, April 30, to discuss Asian Carp mitigation in the Great Lakes region. Details about the briefing are below:
What: Congressional Briefing on Asian Carp and the Great Lakes
Who: Cohosted by the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (ACRCC) and the Northeast-Midwest Institute
(NEMWI)
When:
Tuesday, April 30, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Topics to be Covered (Tentative):
- 2019 Action Plan: Addressing the Threat and Funding Level
- Brandon Road Selected Plan
- Control Technologies and Entrainment
- Grass Carp in Lake Erie
- Illinois and Kentucky Expanded Harvesting Efforts
Participants (Tentative):
- U.S. Enivronmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
- Ohio Department of Natural Resources
For more information,
please contact
Matthew McKenna, Director of the Great Lakes Washington Program at the Northeast-Midwest Institute
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NEMWI Primer on Water Policies That Govern Its Availability, Quality, and Availability Draws Over 40
The Northeast-Midwest Institute hosted a Congressional Briefing on Thursday, April 11th, that featured a discussion on the primary laws governing water quality (Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Water Act) and appropriation mechanisms like the State Revolving Fund and Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) that finance much of the water infrastructure in the country.
The panelists included:
- Jason Isakovic, National Association of Clean Water Agencies
- Lynn Thorp, Clean Water Action
- Ted Stiger, Rural Community Assistance Partnership
- Raffael Stein, US Environmental Protection Agency
- Dr. Sri Vedachalam, Northeast-Midwest Institute
The slides from the presentations and the audio from the
briefing will be posted on the Institute's website in the coming days and circulated in the Weekly Update.
For more information, please contact
Eric Heath
, Senior Policy Counsel for the Mississippi River Basin Program, or Dr. Sri Vedachalam, Director of the Safe Drinking Water Research and Policy Program at the Northeast-Midwest Institute
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NEMWI Partners with the Century Foundation to Help Launch New Manufacturing Collaborative
The Northeast-Midwest Institute, in collaboration with the Century Foundation, is helping launch the American Manufacturing Communities Collaborative (AMCC). The AMCC is a new national organization building on the foundation of the successful 24-region
IMCP initiative, helping regional communities across the United States plan and implement sustainable economic development plans that lead to good paying jobs in thriving manufacturing sectors.
Click
here to read more about the partnership.
For more information, please contact
Eric Heath
, Senior Policy Counsel for the Mississippi River Basin Program at the Northeast-Midwest Institute
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Upcoming Environmental Financial Advisory Board Meeting
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPAs) Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) will be hosting a meeting April 17-18 at the Intercontinental Washington D.C. - The Wharf, 801 Wharf Street SW, Washington D.C. 20024. The purpose of EFAB is to provide financial advice that lowers costs of and increases investment in environmental and public health protection to the EPA administrator and program offices. This event is open to the public; however registration closed on April 10, 2019, and is required in order to attend. There will be a number of presentations given, some of which will include information on topics like Alaska's Waste Backaul Revenue Options, Chesapeake Bay's Performance Metrics, and on Financing Water System Regionalization. The full agenda can be found
here.
For more information, please contact
Dr. Sri Vedachalam, Director of the Safe Drinking Water Research and Policy Program at the Northeast-Midwest Institute
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Elizabeth Warren Unveils New Environmental Policy Proposals
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts unveiled a plan, which she summarized on Medium, to end offshore drilling. She stated, "[o]n my first day as president, I will sign an executive order that says no more drilling- a total moratorium on all new fossil fuel leases, including for drilling offshore and on public lands." She added that she plans to reinstitute the Clean Water Rule in order to protect America's waterways. Warren went on to add that she will set a goal to provide 10% of the United States' total electricity generation from renewable resources. She emphasized the importance of protecting national public lands and stopping the practice of selling public lands for drilling and mining that cause irreversible damage.
She also highlighted her plans to revitalize the Civilian Conservation Corps and instate a 21st Century version of this program, which was first introduced by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s and put unemployed individuals to work on federal lands during the Great Depression. Her plan is to "Recruit 10,000 young people and veterans to jump-start a 21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps- and increase the budget of AmeriCorps' one-year fellowship program to fund it."
For more information, please contact
Eric Heath
, Senior Policy Counsel for the Mississippi River Basin Program at the Northeast-Midwest Institute
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2020 Candidate Profiles: Julian Castro, Potential Democratic Nominee for President of the United States
Julian Castro previously served as a member of the San Antonio, Texas City Council from 2001-2005. He later became Mayor of San Antonio and served in this position from 2009-2014. In 2014, during the Obama administration, he served as the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development where he remained until 2017. During the 2016 elections he was considered a possible running mate for Hilary Clinton, but in the end was not picked in favor of Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia. In 2018 he published his memoir titled,
An Unlikely Journey: Waking up from My American Dream.
Castro has spoken about his support for the Paris Climate accord and has criticized President Trump's decision to pull the United States out of it. During Castro's time as the Mayor of San Antonio, CPS Energy, a city-owned utility, pledged to enforce a 20 percent renewables goal by 2020 and promised to shut down a coal fired plant by 2018. He also expressed his support for the Green New Deal via
Twitter, stating "[w]e're going to say no to subsidizing big oil and say yes to passing a Green New Deal." Castro also played in instrumental role in setting up a bike-sharing and car-sharing program in San Antonio during his time as mayor.
For more information, please contact Eric Heath, Senior Policy Counsel for the Mississippi River Basin Program at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.
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This Week in Washington
In the Senate:
The Senate is on recess this week.
In the House:
The House is on recess this week
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NEMWI: Strengthening the Region that Sustains the Nation
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