by Janet Miller | Ann Arbor Business Review
Thursday February 07, 2008

Cleaning up the Great Lakes wouldn't just help the environment. It would also be good for the economy.

Restoring the Great Lakes - controlling invasive species, addressing sewage contamination, cleaning up toxic waste and restoring shoreline - would create $50 billion in economic benefit from a $26 billion cleanup investment.

That's according to a recent report commissioned by a coalition of business and environmental organizations and conducted by the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.

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