A little more than 100 hundred years ago, the lake sturgeon was the biggest predator in the Great Lakes. The filter-feeding fish can grow up to eight feet long, 300 pounds and can live from 55 to 150 years, according to Michigan Sea Grant. Lake sturgeons are the oldest and largest fish in the Great [...]
I'll be honest. Before I began researching for this class, I didn't really care about pipelines. I knew that pipelines were a problem for the communities they affected, but it never impacted me personally. That all changed when I started researching pipelines for this class. In my time working through my project for this class, [...]
By Brandon Bounds All public water systems in Ohio are now required to update response plans for residents who may be affected by service work on water pipes containing lead. Residents will be alerted 45 days prior to the start of a project and must be informed that the project may cause a temporary increase [...]
Since 2010, more than 200 coal plants have retired across the United States and many are citing competition from cheaper energy sources as the cause. As regulations on coal have been put into place it has become less cost-effective to produce and burn coal for power increased. Most of these regulations stem from the Clean [...]
So, say you’re fishing in one of the waterways of Ohio. Perhaps you’re angling in Lake Erie itself! You feel a tug on your line, and reel it in. But… what’s this? On the side of the otherwise large and pristine-looking fish is a large, long eel-like thing. It’s just hanging there, attached by what [...]
“It’s a sad story, what happens to a place when you have a one-industry town, and hard times come.” Tim Brooks is a historian based in East Liverpool, Ohio, and I interviewed him over the phone about the industrial past of his town and what it means when considering the hazardous waste incinerator just outside [...]
There are over 1,000 Superfund sites all over the United States. These hazardous waste sites are fenced off for the safety of those who live around them. So, why don’t we just clean them all up? Well, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): “Cleaning up Superfund sites is a complex, multi-phase process.” This blog [...]
Written by Ella Abbott and Ray Padilla Two and a half hours southeast of Kent, we found ourselves in Steubenville, Ohio — one of two stops to really understand what it’s like to live near a coal fired power plant. It was a warm and sunny Saturday in September. We both had never ventured down [...]
The Ohio Sea Grant College Program has worked with researchers and educators for over 30 years to protect Lake Erie's environment, as well as the other Great Lakes. Based at The Ohio State University, it is a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is a network of 33 sea grant programs across [...]
The past month, my practicum group members and I have spent a lot of our free time learning about pipelines -- so much that it’s almost become a joke with us . For example, we took a picture together in “pipeline country,” as I repeated multiple times throughout our drive through rural Medina. But as [...]
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