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Monday, April 26, 2010
Environment - Again failure: "Asian carp debates heads to Supreme Court"
Updating this ILB entry from April 23, 2010, Tina Lam of the Detroit Free Press reports this morning in a story that begins:
The U.S. Supreme Court said today it would not take up a legal case Michigan and five neighboring states filed seeking to permanently close off the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes to keep out Asian carp. The court had already twice rejected requests for temporary closures of the locks and canals around Chicago.Michigan, other states, or environmental groups could still file lawsuits over the issue in state or federal court in Illinois, said Nick Schroeck, executive director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center in Detroit. “Now we know the Supreme Court is not going to reopen this case, I wouldn’t be surprised to see other legal actions,” he said.
However, any court case could take a long time. Schroeck said the more practical solution would be to push Congress for action.
Separating the two watersheds, the Mississippi and Great Lakes, from each other is expensive. “Somebody has to pay for that long-term solution,” he said. “This is a national problem. It shouldn’t be left to the states to figure it all out.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 26, 2010 10:39 AM
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