harmful algal blooms

A federal district judge has approved the Ohio EPA's request to be added as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging that the Ohio EPA and the U.S. EPA devised a defective program to control phosphorus flowing into Lake Erie, a chief cause of harmful cyanobacterial blooms in the Great Lake.

Public Health Muskegon County warned of the toxins in Muskegon Lake, but found no evidence of them at Pere Marquette beach, a popular spot on Lake Michigan.

Today, the dangers that remain in Lake Erie, 10 years after a water crisis in Toledo made the water undrinkable for three days. Also, Traverse City voters prepare to decide on a nearly $200 million bond measure to improve energy efficiency for their schools. Plus, in case you missed it, highlights and hot takes on hot political races from our Issues & Ale event in Lansing this week.

It's been ten years since Toledo issued a 'don not drink' order for its water system for three days due to cyanobacterial blooms near its water intake in Lake Erie. The blooms are not any worse, but they are not any less.

Michigan has a pilot program to restore a large wetland area to reduce fertilizer runoff from getting into Lake Erie because it feeds toxic cyanobacterial blooms that spread in the western basin each year.

The cyanobacterial blooms that release toxins are dangerous. Researchers at the University of Toledo look to use a Lake Erie bacteria to detoxify microcystin.

The plaintiffs allege the U.S. EPA failed to adequately intervene to control harmful algal blooms stemming from manure runoff flowing into Lake Erie.

Environmentalists say the Ohio plan will not work because it doesn't hold agriculture responsible for the runoff from fields using manure from factory farms as fertilizer.

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NOAA satellite images and a research vessel sampling Lake Erie water both found evidence of harmful algal blooms on July 5, a much earlier date than typical.