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Lawmakers want District Court to vote on closing Chicago locks

Lawmakers want District Court to vote on closing Chicago locks
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. A member of Congress from Michigan offered legislation Wednesday to force closure of two shipping locks on Chicago-area waterways, escalating a feud between Great Lakes states over how to prevent an invasion of environmentally destructive Asian carp. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which operates the locks, would be denied money to open them under an amendment Republican …

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Business plan seeks to process Asian carp

Business plan seeks to process Asian carp
HAVANA — The solution to the millions of Asian carp threatening the Great Lakes and already choking the Illinois River may rest not in huge government engineering projects alone, but in private enterprise and old-fashioned marketing. After all, says the group behind that approach, why eat “wild carp,” imported as …

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