The Great Lakes Commission’s 2025 Federal Priorities reflect well-established needs and opportunities for strengthening the economic and environmental health of the Great Lakes basin. They enjoy broad support among state and local leaders, business and industry, and the environmental community.
Restoring and protecting the Great Lakes is an enduring, bipartisan priority for the nation and for Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River basin communities. Our organizations support these priorities to ensure the Great Lakes are a source of drinking water, an environmental treasure, and an economic engine now and into the future.
Shared Priorities for the Great Lakes: Advancing Equitable Restoration, Revitalization, Resilience – Joint Priorities Statement, March 2024
The Great Lakes Commission’s 2024 Federal Priorities, presented to the 118th U.S. Congress in March 2024.
Shared Priorities for the Great Lakes: Advancing Equitable Restoration, Revitalization, Resilience
The Great Lakes Commission’s 2023 federal priorities document recommends actions to Congress and the Biden administration toward revitalizing and protecting the Great Lakes environment and economy.
The Great Lakes Commission’s 2022 federal priorities document recommends actions to Congress and the Biden administration toward revitalizing and protecting the Great Lakes environment and economy.
Advancing Equitable Restoration, Revitalization, Resilience: Shared Priorities for the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes Commission’s 2021 federal priorities document recommends actions to Congress and the Biden administration toward revitalizing and protecting the Great Lakes environment and economy.
2020 Great Lakes Commission Federal Priorities
2019 Great Lakes Commission Federal Priorities
With strong bipartisan support and a proven record of success, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is creating jobs and revitalizing struggling communities across the eight-state Great Lakes region.
A team of Great Lakes organizations worked with the University of Michigan’s Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics to analyze the economic impacts of funding provided by the GLRI between 2010 and 2016, the amount of region-wide economic activity that has been and will be triggered by GLRI investment through 2036, the growth in regional tourism that has resulted due to the GLRI, and the impact of the program on the region’s quality of life as reflected in home values.
2018 Great Lakes Commission Federal Priorities
2018 Great Lakes Regional Priorities statement
2017 Great Lakes Commission Federal Priorities
2017 Great Lakes Regional Priorities
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In March 2017, the Great Lakes Commission eleased a set of comprehensive recommendations for investing in water infrastructure across the Great Lakes region.
2016 Great Lakes Commission Federal Priorities