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Algae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationFeature HomepageLake ErieLatest NewsMichiganNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsCan Michigan reduce phosphorus pollution getting into Lake Erie by 40 percent?
-Michigan won’t reach the phosphorus reduction goal by 2025 as planned. It’s uncertain when it might attain that goal to help reduce cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie.
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Algae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationLake ErieLatest NewsMichiganNewsOhioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsReport: MI and OH must spend hundreds of millions more annually to curb toxic blooms in Lake Erie
-A new report suggests Michigan and Ohio will fail to reduce nutrient runoff by 40% as agreed upon.
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Algae BloomsBudgetCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsHabitat RestorationLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeRecreation and TourismRecreational Hunting and FishingScience, Technology, ResearchU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsSome Republicans, Democrats, environmentalists, hunters, anglers, and birders all want the same thing: more wetlands
-The idea is to reduce harmful algal blooms getting into the Great Lakes, reduce flooding, and provide habitat for wildlife.
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Algae BloomsCollaborationFeature HomepageLake ErieLatest NewsNewsOhioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsNew technology provides hope for the Great Lakes’ polluted waters
-The Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Agency have demonstrated a new technology designed to reduce harmful algal blooms in lakes.
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AgricultureAlgae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake ErieLatest NewsMichiganNewsOhioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsRemedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice
-They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work.
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AdvocacyAgricultureAlgae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectThe StatesWater Quality and Restoration EffortsPowerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators
-Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land.
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Algae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeCollaborationDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageInfrastructureLake ErieNewsOhioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsLake Erie’s Failed Algae Strategy Hurts Poor Communities the Most
-Algae blooms are hiking the cost of water for people already struggling to pay their bills.
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AgricultureAlgae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageIndianaIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake ErieLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWisconsinIn A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded
-Law and policy treat farms as special class of polluter.
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Algae BloomsCollaborationFeature HomepageIndianaLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWisconsinTesting the waters: How groups monitor toxic algae in the absence of state testing
-Toxic algae can sicken people and animals. Few states have routine testing programs to check, so some volunteer groups are stepping in to fill that gap.
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AdvocacyAgricultureAlgae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationDrinking WaterFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake ErieLatest NewsMichiganMunicipalitiesNewsOhioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsFarms in Six Southeast Michigan Counties Are Major Sources of Lake Erie Toxic Blooms
-Water sampling finds no reduction in bloom-producing nutrients.
