ENVIRONMENTALISTS GEAR UP FOR ROUND TWO OF GREAT LAKES INTITIATIVE

Some environmentalists are calling on EPA to increase nonpoint source and sediment quality protection in the Great Lakes as part of a second phase of the Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative (GLI). But their requests, for now, seem to be getting little attention from EPA. Two years ago, the agency worked with states to put together a list of areas where progress could be made in nonpoint source areas, but that effort, while identifying key problems including sediment contamination, didn't...