US Environment Protection Agency awards over $17 million grants, Aims to restore Great Lakes

9:06 AM EDT 4/1/2015

In a bid to counter the woes of Climate Change, the United States Environment Protection Agency has released fourteen grants totaling to over 17 million USD for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Confirming the news on its website, it has added that this initiative is imperative to improve the water quality in the country which has reached degrading levels owing to the nutrient run off and soil erosion mainly from agricultural facilities. Furthermore, this has led to the boom in algae growth in various water bodies causing marine mortality on a large scale, hence, threatening the food chain.Read more