Advocacy groups: EPA not doing enough to protect Lake Erie

Environmental advocates who sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency because they believe not enough is being done to address the toxic algae problem in Lake Erie said they think the agency`s response to the suit only bolsters their argument.

The groups want the EPA to declare that the western end of the lake is impaired by the algae that`s a threat to drinking water and fish. Such a designation could lead to stricter pollution controls.

The federal agency last spring sided with Ohio`s environmental regulators who recommended not listing the lake`s open waters as impaired under the federal Clean Water Act...

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Ken Notes: We have to restore balance, we went from great lakes that you could walk across to some of the best sports fishing in the world. We don not want to go back but we also do not want to be asked to leave the playing field. We can not ask businesses be stopped, we need to suggest ways to make it clean and sustainable.