EPA has plans for Great Lakes

We want the Great Lakes to be protected; it's just a little scary when the EPA has plans for anything because of the tactics they employ and the vice grip that they exert on any project. A Great Lakes czar (Cameron Davis, leader of a Chicago-based environmentalist group, has been appointed to oversee President Barack Obama's initiative to clean up the Great Lakes.) has also been appointed.

It promises a "zero tolerance policy" toward invasive species, such as the Asian carp, that threaten to overrun native plants and wildlife. It calls for a 40% drop in the new detection of such species by 2014. It seeks to cut damaging runoff from farms, cities and suburbs into Great Lakes watersheds, which supply municipal drinking water and animal habitat, and to reduce beach pollution so recreation areas can stay open longer during the year. It includes the first complete assessment of the lakes' entire 530,000-acre coastal wetland, and a goal of restoring nearly 100,000 acres of wetlands and other critical habitat areas by 2014.