Once a bright spot, new report finds ducks now declining along with many other bird species in the U.S.
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March 18, 2025
Effort to block invasive carp into Lake Michigan gets blocked by politics
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has delayed a $1.2 billion project meant to keep invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan by at least several months, saying he’s worried President Trump might not cover the federal government’s share of the costs and that it would leave his state on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Illinois, Michigan, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been planning since 2020 to install a gantlet of technologies in the Des Plaines River near Joliet to deter carp from entering Lake Michigan.
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