WASHINGTON - Long before climate change seized the global conscience, when the environment struggled for political traction, North America's Great Lakes
The Great Lakes, North America s single largest source of freshwater, are back in the public spotlight, this time for seemingly all the right reasons, thanks to a billion-dollar cleanup pledge by U.S. President Joe Biden.
WASHINGTON Long before climate change seized the global conscience, when the environment struggled for political traction, North America's Great Lakes were a dumping ground a toxic monument to industrial excess on either side of the Canada-U.S.