President targets $350M for Great Lakes cleanup

President Barack Obama's 2012 budget called for around $350 million to clean up the Great Lakes. The proposal released Monday was a cut from the $475 million that Obama proposed orginally decided on but that amount has no changed. But it's an increase from the $300 million that Obama wanted for 2011, although it's uncertain whether that money will go threw because Congress has not yet approved the budget for the current year. During his campaign in 2008, Obama pledged $5 billion over a decade for the program, which would battle invasive species, step up removal of toxic sediments, restore wildlife habitat and take other steps to fix longstanding environmental problems in the Great Lakes.