the brownline 2008.12.13

• Wendy Berrell spouts some sage advice and enlightens all to the "eco-fugitives" robbing us of our environment. 

• The Minnesota LCCMR reccomends to Legislators $26.1 million in allocations to address various environemntal issues, including: 
• Further development of promising techniques for preventing and controlling the movement of carp species and the detrimental impacts they have on water bodies throughout Minnesota. 
• Efforts to protect Minnesota's waters from endocrine disrupting contaminants that can be detrimental to both aquatic and human health. 
• Development of effective options for protecting Lake Superior from invasive species threats through safe treatment of ship ballast water discharges. 

• With surprisingly much less fanfare, it looks like asian carp have made their way up the Missouri and in to South Dakota.

• Federal lawmakers want to know why in the hell the Army Corps of engineers haven't turned on the $9 million taxpayer-funded electric fence, that was installed to keep Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes.  The ACOE are the real eco-fugitives here.