Great Lakes Law

Asian carp and the US Constitution

I had the chance to spend a morning on the Illinois River at Havana with a PBS film crew shooting a new series on the Constitution hosted by Peter Sagal. They came to see and film the Asian carp, which have taken over this stretch of the Illinois River and could make their way into Lake Michigan. If the Asian carp get into the Great Lakes, it will be an ecological disaster caused by a... Read more →

Governor Snyder appoints Jon Allan as director of the Michigan Office of the Great Lakes

Governor Rick Snyder gets huge kudos for tapping Jon Allan as the next director of the Michigan Office of the Great Lakes. Jon will succeed Patty Birkholz, a long-time champion of Great Lakes protection who earned a reputation for putting environmental policy before partisan politics. Jon Allan will take a leave of at least one year to serve the state as an “Executive on Loan” from Consumers Energy, where he is currently the director of... Read more →