{"id":663027,"date":"2010-02-12T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=18344"},"modified":"2010-02-12T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:05:12","slug":"environmentalists-say-federal-carp-strategy-flawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/663027","title":{"rendered":"Environmentalists say federal carp strategy flawed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Environmental activists say a federal plan to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes has good points but also serious flaws.<\/p>\n

The government released its $78.5 million proposal this week for preventing the invasive fish from entering Lake Michigan through Chicago waterways.<\/p>\n

Five environmental groups today praised its promises to erect new barriers and step up processing of DNA tests needed to tell how close the carp have gotten to the lake. <\/span><\/p>\n

But Andy Buchsbaum of the National Wildlife Federation said there’s too little detail about when and how the steps will be taken. He likened it to a list of ingredients with no recipe.<\/p>\n

Joel Brammeier of the Alliance for the Great Lakes said it fails to promise eventual separation of the lakes from the Mississippi River system.<\/p>\n

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Environmental activists say a federal plan to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes has good points but also serious flaws. The government released its $78.5 million proposal this week for preventing the invasive fish from entering Lake Michigan through Chicago waterways. Five environmental groups today praised its promises to erect new barriers and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MtZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}