Algae blooms

Gov. Mike DeWine says the new clean water initiative will create a permanent source of revenue for current and future water quality challenges.

Next Tuesday, Feb. 26, the residents of Toledo will have the chance to vote on an unusual (some might even say radical) proposal: whether to give the fourth largest lake in the United States its own Bill of Rights. If the ballot measure passes, it would be a win for the small but growing “rights of nature” movement, which aims to deter activities that pollute the environment by granting legal rights to ecosystems.

In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss the upcoming ballot measure that…

It was classic John Kasich.At a wide-ranging final meeting with top advisers, the outspoken governor of Ohio reveled in big accomplishments, lamented…

The Kasich administration says it’s disappointed in a commission’s vote last week to delay action on the governor’s executive order creating tougher rules…

A state panel again Thursday delayed implementation of Ohio Gov. John Kasich's plan to create new regulations on thousands of farms in a bid to reduce…

Lake Erie’s harmful algae bloom season is over for the year, and it wasn’t as bad as scientists expected. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ranks this year’s algae bloom as relatively mild, a 3.6 on the agency’s bloom severity scale. That’s compared to an eight last year. The forecast in July predicted the bloom would be significant – a six.

With a little over two months left till he leaves office, Gov. John Kasich suddenly fired a cabinet member who’s been with him for six years, the state…

New funding from the state will help researchers better examine environmental problems in Lake Erie.Ohio State’s Stone Laboratory plans to build a $1.9…

A crowdsourcing effort is in the works to monitor toxic algae polluting Lake Erie.University of Akron science professor Hunter King and his students are…