HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Pennsylvania State Representative David Maloney is preparing a resolution to rename Lake Erie to Lake Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
The resolution would urge the United States Congress and the United States Secretary of the Interior to take the steps necessary to change the name of the only Great Lake in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery summer, Pennsylvanians head toward the lake\u2014north on I-79 from western Pennsylvania, west on I-80 from central and eastern Pennsylvania and along connecting highways from every corner of the Commonwealth\u2014with boats, fishing gear and families in tow,\u201d Maloney said.<\/p>\n
According to research from Pennsylvania Sea Grant, although roughly 74% of surveyed anglers live in Pennsylvania, they travel an average of 103 miles to reach the water.<\/p>\n
Maloney said the Lakes modern economy and identity are tied to the boaters, anglers, families and tourists who enjoy it.<\/p>\n
Ohio has plenty of shoreline. New York already has two Great Lakes. Canada has four others,\u201d Maloney said. \u201cPennsylvania has one. Let\u2019s call it Lake Pennsylvania!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Pennsylvania State Representative David Maloney is preparing a resolution to rename Lake Erie to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-282288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}