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Saturday, July 17, 2004
Environment - More on the Great Lakes Suit
Yesterday the Indiana Law Blog quoted from a story reporting that "Seven Great Lakes states launched a two-pronged, legal effort this week to stop invasive mussels, fish and other organisms from being dumped into U.S. waters by oceangoing ships" (scroll down a few entries to find it) and noted that Indiana was not a party to either action.
Today the NY Times reports:
New York and six other states have joined a federal lawsuit that seeks to force the United States Environmental Protection Agency to do more to prevent foreign species of fish and plants from invading the Great Lakes. Those species can cause billions of dollars in damage and crowd out indigenous species.Here is a copy of the 7/15/04 press release from the New York Attorney General announcing "a coordinated effort by seven states to combat the problem of harmful invasive species in American waterways, including the Great Lakes." Here is the press release of the Illinois Attorney General. I did not find information about the combined legal effort on the other five states' AG sites, or on the Indiana AG site.The states, all of them touching on the Great Lakes, announced on Thursday that they wanted the agency to take an active role in enforcing regulations that control the discharge of ballast water from oceangoing vessels. * * *
Besides New York and Ohio, the states involved in the petition and supporting brief are Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The Indiana attorney general supported the action but chose not to participate.
[It was interesting, however, to look at the various Attorney General sites, their focus, and the kind of information they presented -- perhaps this will be the subject of an ILB entry at some point.]
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 17, 2004 06:47 PM
Posted to Environmental Issues