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Lake Erie's Toxic Bloom Has Ohio Famers On The Defensive

2014-08-08 23:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: A giant algae bloom is still making the waters in the western part of Lake Erie look like a thick, green pea soup. Toxins in that muck seeped into the water supply of Toledo, Ohio, last weekend, forcing officials to ban nearly half a million people from using tap water. A big cause of the algae proliferation isn't a mystery - it's crop runoff. And local farmers are on the defensive. Six miles from Lake Erie is Ron Schimming's 400-acre soybean and corn farm. "They shouldn't be placing all the...

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