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The intervening years saw some contraction, until the appointment of Glenda Daniel as executive director in 1986. During her tenure, the Lake Michigan Federation opened offices in Muskegon, Milwaukee, and Green Bay, with its original headquarters remaining in Chicago. With the U.S. and Canada signing a major amendment to the U.S.-Canada [[Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement]] in 1987, which among other things allowed for the designation of toxic hotspot "Areas of Concern," the Federation made a significant push to empower local communities in these "AOCs" to seek support for the implementation of cleanups. After Daniel's resignation in 1992, again, the organization contracted, nearly shuttering.
In 1998, the board of directors appointed [[Cameron Davis (EPA)|Cameron Davis]] to serve as its executive director. Having started as a volunteer under Botts' guidance in 1986 and rising to serve as deputy director before leaving to pursue a career in environmental litigation, Davis returned with an aggressive focus on advocacy and expanding partnerships in various states, including bipartisan outreach to federal, state, and municipal elected officials. In 2003, the Alliance formed the Adopt-a-
In December 2009, the board selected Joel Brammeier, the Alliance's vice president for policy, as president & CEO.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.greatlakes.org/Page.aspx?pid=1004|title = Contact Us}}</ref> In 2011, the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition named Brammeier a co-chair of the 120-plus organization consortium,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://healthylakes.org/about/coalition-staff/|title = About Us}}</ref> which among other efforts, campaigned for the establishment of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.<ref>{{cite web |title=White House proposes updated Great Lakes plan |website=[[The Washington Post]] |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/white-house-proposes-updated-great-lakes-plan/2014/05/30/30930466-e840-11e3-a70e-ea1863229397_story.html |access-date=2021-06-25 |archive-date=2014-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607152648/http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/white-house-proposes-updated-great-lakes-plan/2014/05/30/30930466-e840-11e3-a70e-ea1863229397_story.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> Brammeier has been a leading advocate for re-separating the [[Chicago Area Waterway System]] to protect the Great Lakes from invasive species such as [[Asian carp]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.greatlakes.org/Document.Doc?id=779|title=Keeping Invasive Species Out}}</ref>
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The alliance's reach has extended to Washington, D.C., where in 1974, based on [[Polychlorinated biphenyl|PCB]]s' devastating impact in the Great Lakes, the organization led efforts for Congress to ban the chemical through the [[Toxic Substances Control Act]]. In 1989, it initiated a lawsuit to prevent the illegal sale of Lake Michigan lake bottom by the Illinois legislature to a prominent Chicago university, despite disagreement about the move from other environmental organizations. Decades later, the case "Lake Michigan Federation v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers" is a seminal decision under the Public Trust Doctrine,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-06-23/news/9002200903_1_loyola-lake-bottom-ruling |title=Judge Bars Loyola Lakefill As 'Public Trust Violation' - Chicago Tribune |website=articles.chicagotribune.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606220153/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-06-23/news/9002200903_1_loyola-lake-bottom-ruling |archive-date=2014-06-06}}</ref> which prohibits the sale of public Great Lakes resources to private entities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://elr.info/sites/default/files/litigation/21.20111.htm|title = Lake Michigan Federation v. United States Army Corps of Engineers}}</ref>
In 2002 and again in 2008, the alliance helped write and
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