Great Lakes worth fight

Sherrod Brown says he will fight “like hell” against a Trump Administration proposal to cripple the Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. And fight he must.

...Only a determined, bipartisan effort can turn back a proposal to slash funding for the GLRI from $300 million to $10 million annually...

Great Lakes Restoration is not a government boondoggle, like a road to nowhere, or a study of the mating habits of snails. It is about saving one of the wonders of the world, and the economic engine of the Midwest — the Great Lakes.

President Donald Trump is seeking a massive boost in military spending, so, in order to avoid blowing up the national debt, or raising taxes, the money has to come from other places. But it should not come at the expense of the Great Lakes.

There is still an urgent need to address toxic algal blooms and Asian carp in Lake Erie...

Lake Erie’s frailty is still very fresh in the minds of Toledoans, whose water was rendered undrinkable in, 2014, because of algal blooms...

... If the Asian carp are able to overtake Lake Erie, they will decimate a multibillion dollar fishing industry. If fertilizer and other pollution continue to leach into the lakes, the algal blooms will return again and again, endangering the water supply...

Read the full editorial from the Toledo Blade at bit. ly/2miOfUw