States of Indiana, New York Enter Carp Fracas

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Jan 4, 2010 3:00PM

The fight to close the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal has added Indiana and New York to its numbers. Last week, Indiana attorney general Greg Zoeller announced plans to file a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court to hitch onto Michigan's request to re-open a 1966 case in an effort to close the canal and prevent the spread of Asian Carp into the Great Lakes. Indiana was not part of that original case. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has announced his state will also join the cause.

The pair of states join Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin in the lawsuit to shut down the canal, a move the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago says wont stop the carp from invading. With these latest additions to the lawsuit, as well as the way the closing could harm the regional and national economy, the case is beginning to get some nationwide attention as the New York Times ran a feature on the Great Lakes states and how the fight against the spread of the carp is causing a new rift amongst the collective of states.