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The recently released State of the Great Lakes report highlights successes and new threats in restoring and protecting the Great Lakes.

The recently released State of the Great Lakes report highlights successes and new threats in restoring and protecting the Great Lakes.

President Joe Biden visited Northeast Ohio Thursday to announce $1 billion in funding for Great Lakes cleanup and restoration.

President Joe Biden visited Northeast Ohio Thursday to announce $1 billion in funding for Great Lakes cleanup and restoration. Near the mouth of the Black River in Lorain, Biden talked about the 1987 International Joint Commission, formed by the United States and Canada, that identified 43 places in the Great Lakes region where pollution threatened the area's health. “And for decades there was a lot of talk, a lot of plans, but very little progress. It was slow,” Biden said. “That cha...

Near the mouth of the Black River in Lorain, Biden talked about the 1987 International Joint Commission, formed by the United States and Canada, that identified 43 places in the Great Lakes region where pollution threatened the area's health.

When the Ashtabula River and Harbor was identified as a Great Lakes pollution hotspot in 1985, few people thought the day would ever come when it was cleaned up and no longer a detriment to the community and Lake Erie. Thirty-six years later, it has been removed from the Areas of Concern list.

A visit to rural Ashtabula.

One of them made the Top 10.

EPA Proposes Removing Ashtabula River From Areas Of Concern List, Seeks Public Comment Ohio’s Ashtabula River could become the sixth U.S. location removed from the list of the most environmentally degraded Great Lakes areas Citing tremendous progress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ohio Lake Erie Commission, and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, with support from the Ashtabula River Advisory Council, today recommended that Ohio’s Ashtabula River be removed from the U.S.-Canadian ...

EPA proposes removing Ashtabula River from Areas of Concern May 4, 2021, by Eldin Ganic U.S. EPA, Ohio Lake Erie Commission and Ohio EPA, with support from the Ashtabula River Advisory Council, yesterday recommended that Ohio’s Ashtabula River be removed from the U.S.-Canadian list of the most heavily polluted areas on the Great Lakes. A report detailing the comprehensive cleanup of the Ashtabula River “area of concern” will soon be available for...