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Great Lakes Facility Selected to Demonstrate National
Ballast Treatment Verification Protocol
The United States Coast Guard awarded over $400,000 to the
Northeast-Midwest Institute's Great Ships Initiative to trial its ballast
treatment verification protocols. These protocols are widely considered
the basis for pending ballast treatment certification procedures in support of
new federal ballast treatment requirements for ships. The tests will take
place at the Great Ships Initiative's land-based testing facility in
Duluth-Superior Harbor of Lake Superior. Several NE-MW regional
universities supply technical expertise for the program, including the
University of Wisconsin-Superior, the University of Minnesota-Duluth and Cornell
University. The Northeast-Midwest Institute developed the GSI test
facility with support from the key federal agencies (the Maritime Administration
and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) in 2006. The
facility is one of the most advanced globally, and the only such facility capable
of freshwater testing.
For more information contact Allegra Cangelosi at the Northeast-Midwest Institute, 202-464-4007. |
NEMW Executive Director Interviewed on Census Implications for the Midwest
Following a recent New York Times article on reapportionment in the Midwest, Bill Merens of Wisconsin Public (9/29/2010) interviewed the Northeast-Midwest Institute's executive director Tom Wolfe. The show summary was. "Several midwest states are slated to lose seats
in the U.S. House with reapportionment of Congress. From four to
four-thirty today, Ben Merens and his guest discuss the decline of the
region's political clout and the implications for its future." You can access the archive page here or the link to the MP3, here.
For more information contact Tom Wolfe, Executive Director of the Northeast-Midwest Institute. |
Chesapeake Restoration Budget and Action Plan Unveiled
Yesterday, federal agencies released their fiscal year 2011 "action plan" for restoring the Chesapeake Bay. The effort was called for in President Obama's May 2009 Executive Order, and outlines each Federal Leadership Committee agency's contribution and responsibilities in the overall Bay restoration effort.
The $490 million plan includes details on all federal activities (i.e. oyster restoration, increasing public access, improving forest buffers, increase Land & Water Conservation Fund allocations) to be undertaken from now until September 30, 2011, broken down by the four goal areas and four supporting strategies.
The plan explains that funding will come from "direct budgets for Chesapeake Bay activities, allocations of agency base funding toward the Executive Order strategy and shares of national programs that can be attributed to supporting the Executive Order strategy in the Chesapeake watershed." See more at the Mid-Atlantic Watersheds blog.
For more information contact Rachel Dawson at the Northeast-Midwest Institute, 202-464-4016. |
Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference, Oct 13-15, in Cleveland
Help your community realize its potential by participating in the Reclaiming Vacant Properties conference! This year's conference will be held in Cleveland, October 13-15 at the historic Renaissance Cleveland Hotel.
Join hundreds of your peers from communities from the Sunbelt to the Rustbelt, to learn about the policies, tools, and strategies to catalyze long-term, sustainable revitalization. Share your experiences and insights, and become a part of the only national network focused on building the knowledge, leadership, and momentum to reclaim vacant and abandoned properties to foster thriving neighborhoods.
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