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Governor: Ohio plan to clean Lake Erie will work, take time
-Ohio’s new strategy to combat the toxic algae plaguing Lake Erie will focus on reducing agriculture runoff that feeds the yearly outbreaks by offering farmers financial incentives to change their practices, Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday.
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Hundreds of waterways added to Minnesota list of impaired waters
-The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has added 581 waterways to its list of impaired waters in its biennial report to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released Wednesday.
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Judge allows lawsuit seeking action on Lake Erie algae
-A federal judge in Ohio says an environmental group pushing for mandatory regulations to prevent toxic algae blooms on Lake Erie can move forward with its lawsuit.
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PFAS at Niagara Falls airbase
-The Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station ranks seventh on a list of the 100 U.S. military sites most contaminated with PFAS, according to a report issued by the Environmental Working Group.
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Dow agrees to $77M environmental settlement in Michigan
-Dow Chemical Co. has agreed to fund environmental restoration projects worth an estimated $77 million to compensate for decades of pollution by its plant in Midland, Michigan, officials said Friday.
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This year’s algae bloom on Lake Erie ranks as fifth largest
-Researchers say the harmful algae bloom on Lake Erie this past summer was the fifth largest since they began ranking them going back to 2002.
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Investigation: Lead in some Canadian water worse than Flint
-Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have been exposed to high levels of lead in their drinking water, with contamination in several cities consistently higher than they ever were in Flint.
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Green Bay ‘Resilience Coordinator’ Would Help City Mitigate Flooding, Fight Climate Change
-Green Bay, Wisconsin, Mayor Eric Genrich has proposed a new position in his 2020 budget to help the city deal with the effects of climate change.
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Fatberg Quiz: Which fatberg are you most like?
-In sewers around the world, piles of fat, oil and grease are congealing together to form masses called fatbergs. They’re all a little different in their composition and location. With this quiz, you can see which one might share qualities with you.
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Great Black Swamp: Drained centuries ago, DNR and Ohio organizations look to bring some of it back
-In the mid-1800s, the Great Black Swamp was slowly drained as settlers dug drainage trenches and felled trees. The area is now largely farmland. But draining that swamp led to some unanticipated consequences.
