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New 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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Remedies 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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Powerful 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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Lake 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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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded
-Law and policy treat farms as special class of polluter.
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Farms in Six Southeast Michigan Counties Are Major Sources of Lake Erie Toxic Blooms
-Water sampling finds no reduction in bloom-producing nutrients.
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Mapping the HABs: Click to see your state’s reports
-More than half of U.S. states have maps and lists where you can find updates about toxic algae bloom outbreaks.
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AgricultureAlgae BloomsFeature HomepageGary WilsonIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake ErieLatest NewsNewsOhioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
Veteran algal bloom scientist calls on EPA to shift priorities from focus on practices to outcomes
-University of Michigan’s Don Scavia says Lake Erie’s continued “poor” condition is worrisome.
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Will Michigan farmers voluntarily help reduce phosphorus loading into Lake Erie?
-Public pressure is growing over toxic cyanobacteria blooms growing in the western basin of Lake Erie and other places in Michigan.
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2022 Forecast: Smaller than average amount of harmful cyanobacterial blooms for Lake Erie, but some hot spots possible
-Long-term forecasts of less rain leads researchers to predict there will be a less severe outbreak of harmful cyanobacterial blooms.