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Slimy toxic algae will hit Lake Erie again this summer
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 11th, 2014
LiveScience: This is the third year the agency has forecast the amount of toxic slime that would choke Lake Erie during the late summer. The forecast is based on models of fertilizer runoff and satellite tracking of precipitation and snowmelt. The noxious blooms occur when fertilizer runoff feeds the runaway growth of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae. The algae are harmful to marine life and to humans. Decaying cyanobacteria suck up oxygen, creating dead zones. Some kinds of algae also emit toxins that damage...
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New England Confronts Surging Demand Natural Gas
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 11th, 2014
New York Times: Standing on a dirt road outside his aging barn, Walter Jaworski, a former veterinarian turned cattle rancher in this rural part of north-central Massachusetts, points south across his 200 acres of forest and pasture to a nearby tree line. If things don’t go his way, he says, that’s about where a new natural gas pipeline will slice through his land on a 180-mile journey from central New York to a transmission hub north of Boston.
The project, proposed by the pipeline giant Kinder Morgan at a cost...