{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://kaptur.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/kaptur-welcomes-additional-glri-funding-combat-harmful-algal-blooms", "Kaptur Welcomes Additional GLRI Funding to Combat Harmful Algal Blooms", "2014-12-18", "2014", "2014-12", "Democrat", "House", "OH", "Marcy Kaptur", "K000009", "kaptur.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "TOLEDO (Dec. 18, 2014)  Congresswoman Kaptur, ranking member on the House Appropriations Energy and Water Subcommittee, welcomed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision to commit an additional $3.1 million in federal funding to combat harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie.\n\n\t\n\n\tThe additional funding comes on top of $8.6 million that was made available to state agencies in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana last October.\n\n\t\n\n\tThe conditions that caused the Toledo water crisis last August have not changed materially, Kaptur said. The algae season is over, but the threat remains, so we have to be vigilant about protecting our community and saving Lake Erie.\n\n\t\n\n\tU.S. Rep. John Dingell (D-Michigan) called the algal blooms in Lake Erie an environmental crisis that deserves our attention  I'm happy to see this additional funding made available.\n\n\t\n\n\tThe USEPA said it will direct $3.1 million from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) to three other federal agencies and the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to expand efforts to reduce phosphorus runoff into Lake Erie. The EPA said it was making the funding available now so that priority projects can be implemented prior to the 2015 algae season.\n\n\t\n\n\tThe new grantees include:\n \n\t\tNational Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration ($1 million) and the U.S. Geological Survey ($900,000) to improve harmful algal bloom forecasting and water quality testing.\n\t\n\t\tThe Natural Resources and Conservation Service, an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, approximately $1 million to encourage farmers in the Western Lake Erie Basin to adopt conservation practices; and\n\t\n\t\tThe Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (approximately $197,000) to improve nutrient management on Michigan farms.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://kaptur.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/kaptur-welcomes-additional-glri-funding-combat-harmful-algal-blooms"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3491259887814522, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}