Reply #7: Feds set date for carp meeting

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The White House has set a Feb. 8 date for a meeting with three Great Lakes governors to discuss efforts to control the spread of Asian carp into the Great Lakes. Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, announced that she and top officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Interior, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and U.S. Coast Guard will meet with Govs. Jennifer Granholm, Jim Doyle of Wisconsin and Pat Quinn of Illinois behind closed doors.

Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox and four other state attorney generals who filed a lawsuit over the carp invasion had asked to be at the meeting, but they were not invited.

Granholm and Doyle requested the meeting with White House officials the same day the Army Corps announced it had found carp DNA in Lake Michigan and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to issue an injunction shutting down Chicago-area locks at least temporarily.

Cox is still pursuing the lawsuit, which seeks to permanently wall off the shipping canal linking the Mississippi River to the Great Lakes.

http://www.freep.com/article/20100128/NEWS06/100128057/1001/NEWS/Feds-set-date-for-carp-meeting