(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - A Great Lakes restoration plan hatched by President Barack Obama in the heat of last year’s campaign has been embraced as a prescription to heal centuries of pollution and mismanagement.

But while the federal government is about to spend up to $475 million toward a restoration program that ultimately could cost tens of billions of dollars, assaults continue on the world’s largest freshwater system. And the plan does little or nothing to stop them by calling for tough new laws and regulations, or ensuring that existing rules be enforced. More