Detroit News:Tom Zimnicki, Agriculture policy director for the Michigan Environmental Council In recent remarks about Lake Erie’s toxic algae problem, the head of Michigan’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) sounded eerily similar to lobbyists for Big Tobacco when … Continue Reading…
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MLIVE.COM: LANSING, MI — On the cusp of what’s expected to be another sizable summer algae bloom in Lake Erie, the state of Michigan has released a plan for improving the lake that critics say doesn’t do enough to reduce … Continue Reading…
Link to Senate Bill 141 (2002) Toledo Blade, 6/7/2017 COLUMBUS — Toledo-based Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie this morning asserted the Ohio Department of Agriculture has lacked legal authority to issue or enforce permits for more than 200 of the … Continue Reading…
LENAWEE COUNTY, Mich. — Farming is in Pam Taylor’s blood. Her family has been farming in rural Lenawee County on Michigan’s southern border since 1837. That’s the year Michigan became a state, one surrounded by the most amazing concentration of … Continue Reading…
The Great Lakes are being poisoned by poop By Jack Lessenberry Pam Taylor, a woman I admire a great deal, lives in a rural community in Lenawee County, not far from the Ohio border, a place where her family has been farming … Continue Reading…