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Great Lakes Legislative Caucus The Great Lakes Legislative Caucus is a nonpartisan group of state and provincial lawmakers from eight U.S. states (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin) and two Canadian provinces (Ontario and Quebec). The caucus’s goal is to promote Great Lakes restoration and strengthen the role of state and provincial legislators in the Great Lakes policymaking process. Please visit our website at www.greatlakeslegislators.org to learn about upcoming caucus events, to access various products and services (including our Great Lakes legislative trackers and newsletters), and to see who represents the Great Lakes basin in the U.S. Congress and statehouses.   The caucus last met August 6-7 in Toronto in conjunction with the Midwestern Legislative Conference Annual Meeting.   Presentations from August meeting in Toronto Joel Brammeier of the Great Lakes Alliance ~ "Separation of the Mississippi River and Great Lakes" Tim Meisner of Transport Canada ~ "Managing Ballast Water on the Great Lakes" Capt. Lorne Thomas of the U.S. Coast Guard ~ "Ballast Water Discharge Standard Rulemaking" Victoria Pebbles of the Great Lakes Commission ~ "Offshore Wind in the Great Lakes Region and the Great Lakes Wind Collaborative" Steve Dever of the Great Lakes Energy Development Task Force  ~ "Developing Offshore Wind Energy on Lake Erie" John Kourtoff of Trillium Power Wind Corp. ~ "Rebuilding the Economic Engine of the Great Lakes Region Through Offshore Wind Energy" Shannon Briggs of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment ~ "Protecting Our Beaches"         For more information, contact: Mike McCabe last updated: August 13, 2010 The Council of State Governments  Midwestern Office 701 East 22nd Street  ●  Suite 110  ●  Lombard, Illinois 60148 Tel: 630.925.1922 ● Fax: 630.925.1930 ● E-mail: csgm@csg.org