The state of Ohio appears ready to institute something environmental groups have been clamoring for since Toledo’s 2014 algae-driven water crisis: a Total Maximum Daily Load, or TMDL, for western Lake Erie. TMDLs are so-called “pollution diets” for ecosystems. They are designed to … Continue Reading…
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The Center for Public Integrity – Jamie Smith Hopkins, Environment Editor and Senior Reporter “It is a profound injustice that the citizens of Toledo have had to clean up a mess that other people have made,” Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz said in … Continue Reading…
The Center for Public Integrity – Jamie Smith Hopkins, Environment Editor and Senior Reporter OREGON, Ohio — It was sunny and 82 degrees, a perfect August day for a trip to the public beach just outside Toledo. But hardly anyone was here. … Continue Reading…
VPR News – John Dillon Laurel Casey counts herself as a casualty of farm pollution. Her small, lakeshore house in Bridport has been damaged by runoff from the farm fields above her. She said she’s had trouble renting out a … Continue Reading…
July 18, 2019 Canandaigua Rd., Medina Twp., (Bean/Tiffin/Maumee). Lights, generator back in wetlands origin of Covell Drain (to Bean Creek). See aerial photos taken 5.31.2019 for a birds’ eye view of this. We thought this was supposed to … Continue Reading…