Misguided Grant Payments Benefit Ag Dealers LenConnect.com 7/2/16: Representative Walberg announced nearly $400,000 in grant payments to a few Lenawee & Hillsdale farmers to buy strip-till equipment. River Raisin Watershed director Steve May described this handout would mean “less nutrients will be going into … Continue Reading…
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Environmentalists are crying foul over Toledo’s decision to seek Lake Erie restoration advice from an Ann Arbor consulting firm that was accused of being pro-agriculture and chastised for using weak science by an independent review panel in 2011.LimnoTech, Inc., tried … Continue Reading…
Without sunlight, warmth and food, algae is all but nonexistent statewide. Except at Grand Lake St. Marys in western Ohio. Here, the water already is colored by cyanobacteria, the blue-green algae that plagues Ohio each year and contaminated Toledo’s drinking … Continue Reading…
With blue-green algae blooms becoming a part of summer in Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair, concern is growing that nutrients — including those from cow manure and from large operations with more than 700 milk-producing animals — could be a long-term … Continue Reading…
Demonstrators from the group “Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie” greeted Toledo Mayor Paula hicks-Hudson as she pulled up to her political fundraiser Thursday night at the UAW Local 14 union hall. Hicks-Hudson has refused to tell the U.S. Environmental … Continue Reading…