The problems facing the Great Lakes are many, but we have solutions and it is time to use them.  Each year we delay, the problems get worse and the solutions become more costly.  We must act now to restore the health of the Great Lakes.  Action is required at both the state and federal level to protect our drinking water, our health, our economy and our way of life.

Click here to download a factsheet on current policy issues concerning the Great Lakes.

Click here to download a factsheet on Great Lakes restoration issues that was shared with members of Congress during the 2010 Great Lakes Day in Washington, DC. 

Safe Mines: Protecting Our Water from Toxic Mining Pollution

Check out this film on proposed sulfide mining here in Minnesota, created by the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness.

Watch a documentary film on sulfide mining from the Great Lakes Natural Resource Center of the National Wildlife Federation: Mining Madness, Water Wars: The Great Lakes in the Balance

Great Lakes Restoration & the Threat of Global Warming
A Report by the Healing Our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition
May 2008

Check out MEP's Julie O'Leary talking about the 2009 Great Lakes Day in Washington, DC.

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency: Vessel Discharge (Ballast Water) Program

Factsheets on the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and President Obama's proposed FY2010 budget.

Information about Great Lakes issues: Great Lakes Echo (a project of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University).

CONNECTING THE COASTS: Connecting Critical Issues To Service Learning Across the Lake Superior Basin