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Horacio Romero of Toledo, Ohio, looks at algae in Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park on Aug. 4, 2014. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Toxic algae are back. We're all at risk

Patrick Wensink
Young female and male environmentalist cleaning lake while picking plastic from claw (Getty Images/Maskot)

Biden plans to clean up the Great Lakes

Eric Schank
Photo taken on Jan. 15, 2022 shows the frozen Lake Ontario in Toronto, Canada. Extreme cold weather with the temperature as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius covered Toronto from Friday to Saturday. (Photo by (Zou Zheng/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Climate change hits the Great Lakes

Diana Kruzman - Grist
Clubshell mussel. (Stihler Craig, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Public domain)

Wildlife service kills endangered mussel

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
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TOLEDO, OHIO - AUGUST 4: Algae washes ashore from Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park August 4, 2014 in Oregon, Ohio. Toledo, Ohio area residents were once again able to drink tap water after a two day ban due to algae related toxins. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images) (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Lake Erie & Rights of Nature

Dana Zartner - The Conversation
Algae floats on the surface of Lake Erie's Maumee Bay in Oregon, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP/Paul Sancya)

Lake Erie's "Bill of rights"

Valerie Vande Panne - Independent Media Institute
Algae floats on the surface of Lake Erie's Maumee Bay in Oregon, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP/Paul Sancya)

A clean water revolution in the U.S.

Valerie Vande Panne - Independent Media Institute
FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, the City of Toledo water intake crib is surrounded by algae in Lake Erie, off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. Groups working to solve Lake Erie’s algae outbreaks agree that a key step will be targeting areas that are sending much of the algae-feeding phosphorus into the lake. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File) (AP)

Algae is taking over Lake Erie

Maria Gallucci - Grist
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(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

What’s the value of a clean beach?

Timothy Haab - The Conversation
Aundrea Simmons stands next to her minivan with cases of bottled water she bought after Toledo warned residents not to use its water, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 in Toledo, Ohio. About 400,000 people in and around Ohio's fourth-largest city were warned not to drink or use its water after tests revealed the presence of a toxin possibly from algae on Lake Erie. (AP Photo John Seewer)

John Seewer
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