Dear John,

This Valentine's Day, show your love for the Great Lakes.

Right now, in Congress, a bipartisan push to reauthorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) has been introduced in both the House and Senate. We love that!

Your lawmakers need to hear from you! Ask them to show their love for the Great Lakes by reauthorizing this program and ensuring there's enough funding for staff to implement it well.

Contact Your Members of Congress: [[link removed]]

We know there's a lot of challenging news coming out of D.C. — but today, we want to focus on a program that works and will continue to work with Congress’ support.

GLRI is an incredibly successful program that creates a system of coordination among federal agencies, state entities, and local partners to protect the Great Lakes. Since its inception in 2010, the program has achieved strong results in wetlands restoration, beach protection, clean-ups of toxic waste sites, and invasive species management through thousands of projects administered by the U.S. EPA and other federal agency partners.

Every dollar invested in GLRI comes back threefold in additional economic activity in the Great Lakes region. It works, we love it, and want to keep it going!

Please take a minute right now to contact your members of Congress and urge them to love GLRI and make sure it has the funding needed to make this program work.

Thank you, and here’s to jumping in the lake soon!

Ann Mesnikoff
Federal Legislative Director
Environmental Law & Policy Center


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