EPA Announces Grants for Macomb And Wayne Counties

More than $2.2 million in grants from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will be used for projects in Metro Detroit.

The federal government awarded nearly $2.2 million in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grants Friday to Metro Detroit area agencies to protect and preserve the waterways. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the four grants to local agencies at Veterans Memorial Park in St. Clair with members of Congress, county officials and local environmental groups. "The new standard of care under the president's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative ... is to make sure we are proactively making the Great Lakes better for the next generation," said Cameron Davis, EPA senior advisor to the administrator on the Great Lakes. The four grants are among 70 that have been awarded by the EPA under the Great Lakes Restorative Initiative in 2011. The …

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