Tagged In: Clean Water, Climate Change, Environmental Health, Farms, Great Lakes, Land Use, Natural Resources, Water Pollution
Ohio Environmental Council, May 25, 2016
Columbus, OH – Today Governor Kasich’s administration released its plan for curbing Lake Erie’s toxic algae, the plan includes a number of positive proposals but as drafted, it falls short of the actions needed to fully solve this problem. Specifically, the Collaborative Implementation Plan includes an encouraging new program to verify implementation of conservation practices, but overall it lacks effective solutions to reduce runoff pollution from big agriculture, which scientists recognize as the primary source of pollution feeding the lake’s algae.