NALMS 314 Working Group Flies into DC
The President’s Budget for FY 2026 previously proposed the complete elimination of the Non-Point Source Pollution Reduction grant program in Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, along with an 87% reduction Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. These programs are essential to protecting lakes, ponds, and reservoirs. The 319 program has improved water quality for nearly 1,500 lake and pond projects since 2002. While the funding has been returned to the FY2025 level, until the budget passes, this funding is not guaranteed. Congress is making important budget decisions for ...
World’s Leading Aquatic Scientific Societies Urgently Call for Cuts to Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Dire consequences for freshwater and marine resources without significant and fast action
Bethesda, MD (September 14, 2020) In an unprecedented statement released today, the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) joined forces with 111 aquatic scientific societies representing more than 80,000 scientists across the world to sound a climate change alarm. The societies call for drastically curtailed global greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of man-made climate change to fish and aquatic ecosystems. Unless urgent action is taken to reduce ...
CASS Releases WOTUS Statement
American Fisheries Society ● Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation ● Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society
International Association for Great Lakes Research ● North American Lake Management Society
Phycological Society of America ● Society for Freshwater Science ● Society of Wetland Scientists
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 23, 2020
Contact: Drue Winters
dwinters@fisheries.org
(301) 897-8616 x202
AQUATIC SCIENTISTS CRITICIZE REVISED DEFINITION OF WATERS OF THE ...