Pennsylvania state Rep. David Maloney (R) called on President Trump this week to rename Lake Erie to \u201cLake Pennsylvania\u201d following similar moves by the president earlier this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is Pennsylvania\u2019s only Great Lake. Its modern economy and identity are increasingly tied to the boaters, anglers, families and tourists who come to enjoy it\u201d Maloney said in a statement earlier this week<\/a>. \u201cOhio has plenty of shoreline. New York already has two Great Lakes. Canada has four others.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPennsylvania has one. Let\u2019s call it Lake Pennsylvania,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Lake Erie is the smallest of the Great Lakes by volume and is also the shallowest, according to the Environmental Protection Agency<\/a> (EPA). The lake has a total of 12 million people in its watershed<\/a>, split between 10.5 million people in the U.S. and 1.9 million people in Canada.<\/p>\n In his announcement, Maloney called on Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to enforce the name change.<\/p>\n Trump signed an executive order<\/a> formally changing the name of Lake Ontario to \u201cLake America\u201d amid the ongoing trade war with Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n Canada\u2019s retaliatory tariffs went into effect<\/a> Tuesday with Pennsylvania expected to be heavily impacted by the 15 percent, 25 percent and 50 percent tariffs on around 6 percent of what the U.S. exported to Canada last year.<\/p>\n Pennsylvania\u2019s largest export market is Canada. In 2025, Pennsylvania exported $13.9 billion in goods to Canada, representing 27 percent of the state\u2019s total goods exports, according to the U.S. trade representative\u2019s office<\/a>.<\/p>\n The president has also proposed renaming New Mexico to “New America,” which initiated a negative response<\/a> from several of the state’s Democratic lawmakers.<\/p>\n