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Farms in Six Southeast Michigan Counties Are Major Sources of Lake Erie Toxic Blooms

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Her finding revealed a major source of phosphorus that drains from farmland and contributed to the harmful algal bloom that shut down Toledo’s drinking water plant for three days the year before. A study by the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago and the Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Protection Agency.

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Federal Water Tap, February 21: EPA Watchdog Will Investigate Agency’s Drinking Water Lead Response in Michigan City

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Financial Assessments for Clean Water Act Compliance. Environmental Protection Agency is taking another swing at defining key concepts that govern Clean Water Act requirements for wastewater utilities. News Briefs. Those seasonal peaks are becoming more pronounced.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded Law and policy treat farms as special class of polluter. Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. Photographs by J.

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Opposition to CAFOs Mounts Across the Nation

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Opposition to large livestock operations is more intense than at any time in recent memory, say environmental advocates. It’s been building and building,” said Rob Michaels, an attorney for the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), a Chicago-based legal group, who is working to limit CAFO manure discharges in Ohio and Michigan.