Wipe off the date and a few of the names, and see how little has changed. Let's hope the proposed new U.S. federal funding for the Lakes alters history.
"...the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Canadian health officials said today that the Great Lakes are facing 'a critical situation' as a result of toxic contamination and the destruction of wildlife habitat.
"They called for an expanded commitment by the two nations to clean up the lakes, the world's largest surface source of fresh water, saying that gains in controlling pollution over the last two decades had been endangered.
"Speaking at simultaneous news conferences here and in Toronto, officials of the two governments announced a study concluding that urgent action is needed by Federal, state, provincial and local governments to reverse what it calls the widespread, long-term environmental degradation of the Lakes, ''The Great Lakes environment is sick, and is no longer getting better...'"
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