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In the first days of August this year the tap water for half a million people in and around the Toledo , Ohio area containedalmost three parts microcystin per billion (1). The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends drinking water has nomore than one part per billion. Microcystin is a neurotoxin fatal to animals and capable of laying waste to entire ecosystems.

Even alligators, whose blood actually produces anti bacterial and anti fungal proteins, are not immune to microcystins deadlyeffects. Its insidious pathology was recently featured in a National Geographic documentary Predator CSI Zombie Alligators
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(2). It has been linkedto Pansteatitis wherethe fat on animals turnsyellow and takes on theconsistency of rubber causing agonizing pain,

paralysis and finally

death.

In humans microcystindamages the liver andcauses skin eruptions.In 1998 in Brazil it wasinadvertentlyadministeredintravenously to ahundred and twenty sixhemodialysis patients.Sixty of them died ( 3).A few years ago in theUS it is suspected of having caused

encephalitis when a man got some in his eye while washing it off his dog. The man survived after extensive hospitalizationand rehabilitation. He returned to work two years later. The dog died ( 4).

Microcystin is a cyanotoxin or neurotoxin produced by Microcystis aeruginosa which blooms in mass in Lake Erie duringAugust. Microcystis aeruginosa is a species of freshwater cyanobacteria ( 5) that causes Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB). Theneurotoxin itself cannot be removed by boiling or home filtering your water. In water treatment plants it is usually controlled

by treating water with hydrated potassium aluminum sulfate which clings to the toxic particles weighing them down for easyseparation. The treated water is then run through powdered activated carbon before it is finally distributed for consumption(6).

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has no tolerance standards for the presence of microcystin in tap water althoughit does consider HAB to be a major environmental problem in all 50 states ( 7). In the United States testing for microcystin isdone voluntarily by each individual state with different tests and different rules for performing those tests in each state. Ohiouses WHOs one part per billion and is supposed to notify the public of any readings over 0.5. At levels of 0.3 and under

microcystin is considered undetectable. The problems in Toledo were exacerbated when readings from Ohios EPA differedfrom those of the federal EPA.
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All the way back in March Ottawa County sanitary engineer Kelly Frey had been warning public officials of an impendingend of summer disaster. Frey questioned why the looming health risk of microcystin had not yet even been addressed with astandard for the maximum allowable amount by Ohios EPA. In a letter sent out to Ohios U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur,democrat, Ohios U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, democrat and Ohios U.S. Senator Rob Portman, republican, Frey wrote Thelaissez-faire approach by the Ohio EPA and Ohio Department of Health is troubling and gives the appearance of apathy.Only Representative Marcy Kaptur got back to him ( 8).

In what may be just a coincidence on Thursday August first Ohio EPAs chief of the Division of Drinking and GroundWaters, Mike Baker, announced that federal EPA guidelines were on the way. The first alarming reading of 0.6 was taken atToledos Collins Park Water Treatment Plant on Friday August second. It wasnt until Sunday August fourth that the FederalEPA confirmed readings in the high twos ( 9).

On Saturday, bypassing the Ohio EPA, Representative Marcy Kaptur conducted a conference call to the Federal EPAconcerned that the Ohio EPA was withholding test results. She demanded immediate disclosure saying the public has a rightto know. She was told by regional administrator Susan Hedman that although the Feds were doing the testing the state has

jurisdiction in the matter. The exasperated congresswoman later said Whether its the State EPA or the Federal EPA makesno difference. The public deserves transparency. She went on to openly question why the Federal EPA has the all the

sophisticated equipment necessary to test for microcystin ( 10) but was not present at any of the meetings and had failed toaddress the media on the matter.

Eventually the Collins Park Water Treatment Plant tripled its application of activated carbon bringing Toledos water down tostandards acceptable by WHO for human consumption. In a news conference on August fourth Toledos Mayor MichaelCollins declared the water once again safe to drink taking a tentative sip for the cameras of a clear liquid in a cheap glass. Inspite of the mayors theatrics as late as August fifteenth Toledo water samples were still testing as high as 0.972 parts per

billion ( 11). Minnesota considers water unsafe for consumption at more than 0.4 parts per billion ( 12).

The problem in Toledo appears to be due to inadequacies in the Collins Park Plants intake process. But the putrid blue - greenalgal blooms associated with microcystin have become endemic in Lake Erie. As they have for the last few years in freshwater lakes all over America from Vermonts Lake Champlain to Dorena Reservoir in Oregon and from FloridasCaloosahatchee River to Wisconsins Lake Menomin. The source of the rampant algal blooms is water temperatures abovesixty degrees Fahrenheit combined with high concentrations of phosphorus and nitrogen due to fertilizer run off fromagricultural production and sludge being pumped from sewage treatment plants.

The Maumee River spans a hundred and thirty seven miles from northeastern Indiana all through northwestern Ohio emptyinginto Lake Erie at Toledo. Prior to its cultivation through tile drainage it was called the Great Black Swamp. Tile drainage wasfirst introduced to America by Scotchman John Johnston in 1832. Using the ancient old world method of facilitating water seepage through subterranean channels fabricated from tiles Johnson increased the yield almost tenfold on his three hundredand twenty acre farm in Seneca, New York. By the latter half of the century James B. Hill would invent the Buckeye Traction
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Ditcher a machine that automated the until then labor intensive method of installing the tile. Hills ditcher would be used todrain all of northwestern Ohio and go on to recklessly drain huge portions of Florida and Louisiana.

The Great Lakes contain 54% of the liquid fresh water on the earths surface. The Maumee River, once the artery of a vastforbidden wetland filtering water into one of the five lakes that comprise the worlds largest group of freshwater lakes, nowdrains 4.5 million acres of the most cultivated farmland in America into that same lake. Although the Maumee contributesonly 3% of the water flowing into Lake Erie it contributes 60% of the phosphorus. The blooms that have plagued the lake for

the last few years have all began at the mouth of the river in Maumee Bay. The contamination of Toledos drinking water inearly August was caused when strong northeasterly winds backed the cyanobacteria up into the bay and wave action forced itthrough the treatment plants intake valves.

Dr. Jeff Reutter is considered by many to be the worlds premier expert on HABs. He is the director of Ohio StateUniversitys fabled Stone Lab which hosted its annual symposium of environmental scientists and writers on Augusteighteenth and nineteenth. He estimates that a 40% decrease in phosphorus run off into Lake Erie would result in theimmediate improvement in the lakes water quality. Putting the science in chronological perspective Dr Reutter said theretention time for water in the western basin of the lake is 20 to 50 days. So if we could reduce the load of phosphorous intothe western basin, these blooms would go away and it would happen very quickly ( 13 ).

On August eighth democratic State Representatives Chris Redfern, Michael Ashford, Teresa Fedor and Mike Sheehy held anews conference imploring the rest of Ohios democrats and republicans to work together for a bipartisan solution to their states drinking water problems ( 14 ). Representative Sheehy promised that he would propose a bill banning the spread of manure on frozen ground. The EPA and most environmental scientists agree that the unregulated spread of fertilizer

particularly manure by Ohios agricultural and livestock industrys is the primary culprit. Much of it is spread in winter. The phosphorous leaches into the ice and ends up running off into Lake Erie with the spring melt ( 15). Sheehy said that he had planned on amending the measure to state Senate Bill 150 signed into law in early June by Governor John Kasich but he hadfeared that the extra regulation would prevent the bills passage at the time. SB 150 requires Ohio farmers who usecommercial fertilizer to be certified by the state but it will not go into effect until 2017.

Representative Fedor said Kasich should declare the Maumee River a distressed watershed. This was already done with greatsuccess in Grand Lake St. Marys in western Ohio and Wisconsins Green Bay watershed. The designation allows the state toimpose regulations. Fedor said This is just a commonsense step towards protecting our waterways and protecting our drinking water, number one. Its so solvable. Its a no-brainer ( 16 ).

The EPA makes other recommendations for curbing phosphorous runoff into Lake Erie, most notably the use of cover crops, buffer zones, better sewerage treatment and no till farming but in a recent interview by Reporter Christy McDonald of Detroit public television Dr. Reutter does not seem to agree. When we look at different places around the country where theyrehaving harmful algal blooms, some of them are going to be driven by agricultural loading, but some of them are going to be

poor sewage treatment plants or a bunch of failing septic tanks, but, in Lake Erie, its primarily agriculture ( 17 ).
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As the home of Wright Patterson Air Force Base Ohio just may be the capital of the earths military defense industry buteconomically, at least on paper, agriculture is king. A full one out of seven people are employed in the agricultural industry.Governor Kasich calls it the strongest industry in Ohio and the bedrock of the state of Ohio ( 18 ).

Kasich, Ohios governor since 2011 is a republican. He is one of the principle architects of the American LegislativeExchange Council (ALEC); the notorious corporate lobbying consortium controlled by the Koch Brothers . According toALECs web site; back in 1981 when Kasich was an Ohio State Senator he was instrumental in forming an alliance between

ALEC members and Reagan Administration officials, ALEC established seven first-generation Task Forces, then calledCabinet Task Forces, which worked directly with the administration on policy development issues ( 19 ). Kasichs resume alsoincludes working as a FOX commentator and a stint as an investment banker for the now bankrupt Lehman Brothers.

Kasich has been dubbed by many as the anti environmental governor for his signing of Ohio State Senate Bill 310 .Inexplicably SB310 suspends Ohios revenue saving and job generating alternative energy program at least till the end of 2017 while a study committee reviews its impact. Ohios landmark green energy legislation SB221 was signed into law in2008 by Ohios then democratic governor Ted Strickland. The bill had already passed through the house and senate with acombined vote of a hundred and thirty-two to one. Since SB221 went into effect Ohios clean energy sector has providedtwenty-five thousand jobs ( 20 ), at least a billion dollars in private sector investment ( 21 ) and by dropping electricity rates by

almost a percent and a half saved rate payers approximately two hundred and thirty million dollars ( 22 ).

SB310, suspending SB221, was signed into law by Kasich on June 13 against the wishes of more than 70 percent of Ohioans(23 ). Former governor Ted Strickland was livid over the arbitrary sabotage of the legislation saying it was legislationdeveloped over months of bipartisan discussions about how to create jobs in an emerging industry and position Ohio as anational leader in the production of renewable energy. It has been working jobs are being created, investments are beingmade, and rate-payers are saving money. Ed Fitzgerald, Kasichs democratic opponent in his bid for reelection this

November, immediately issued a statement. Tonight, Governor Kasichs office announced that he intends to move Ohioseconomy, families, and environment backwards. SB 310 will force utility prices to rise, and cost Ohioans thousands of jobs. Insigning this bill, Governor Kasich will align himself with the Koch Brothers and the wealthy and well connected andagainst working Ohioans. As Governor, I will work to make Ohio a national energy leader, rather than make headlines for trapping Ohio in the Rust Belt ( 24).

A study by Ohio Advanced Energy Economy, done right before the passage of SB310, found that eighty-six percent of Ohiovoters supported the states energy efficiency programs. The blatant disregard of the democratic process in Ohio is nothingless than the sacking of an entire state by previously diverse but always exploitive corporate interests that have coalesced intoa single fearsome political entity. ALECs Private Enterprise Advisory Council includes Koch Industries, Energy FutureHoldings, Peabody Energy, and ExxonMobil. In 2013 ALEC introduced over seventy bills in thirty seven states designed toneutralize Americas clean energy initiatives.

The Los Angeles Times has spelled it out for America in their headlines Koch brothers, big utilities attack solar, greenenergy policies ( 25 ). The international British publication The Guardian has described ALEC as a dating agency for
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Republican state legislators and big corporations, bringing them together to frame rightwing legislative agendas in the form of model bills (26 ). Even capitalist bastion Bloomberg Businessweek admits that ALECs faade of being an altruisticorganization of Jeffersonian idealists acting as legislative advisors is farcical saying Part of Alecs mission is to presentindustry-backed legislation as grass roots work ( 27 ). After describing how Senator Bill Seitz, an ALEC board member ( 28 ),neutered Ohio legislation designed to recover for Ohios taxpayers revenue lost through fraudulent business practices The

New York Times went on to accuse ALEC of turning legislators into stealth lobbyists, providing them with talking points,signaling how they should vote and collaborating on bills affecting hundreds of issues like school vouchers and tobacco taxes

(29

).

In spite of the better part of the western Medias efforts to cover its plundering ALEC was never mentioned once in any of thethirty-two articles published in Ohios major papers purporting to explain SB 310 to their readers. This was in spite of the factthat the bills most vociferous proponents; Senator Bill Seitz, Senator Keith Faber, Senator Frank LaRose and RepresentativeWilliam G. Batchelder are all known members of ALEC ( 30 ). At the beginning of 2013 ALEC listed sixty-two Ohiolegislators as members ( 31 ). They are almost all republicans. Thirty-six of those names will be appearing on Ohios ballotsthis November fourth.*

Although he is a member of ALEC and his term expires at the end of the year Senator David T. Daniels will not be running

for reelection in November. Governor Kasich appointed him Director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture on Februaryfifteenth, 2012. Daniels, whom throughout a political career spanning almost his entire adult life has fought againstunnecessary red tape and regulations and to foster a healthy business climate ( 32 ), will be pivotal in working with the EPA toregulate phosphorous runoff from Ohios mammoth agricultural industries into the water of approximately twelve million

people that live in the Lake Erie watershed ( 33 ).

The same day democratic representatives Redfern, Ashford, Fedor and Sheehy were holding their news conference presentingsolutions and pleading for bipartisan cooperation Republican House Speaker Senator Troy Balderson, noted author of the anti-environmental legislation SB310 and known member of ALECs Natural Resources Task Force, appointed fellowrepublican and member of ALEC; Representative David Hall, chairman of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.As we move forward looking at the algae blooms, we will probably see some other bills produced, Hall is quoted as saying.I expect everything that deals with manure management, and anything else on that level, to go through my committee ( 34 ).

*Legislators listed as ALEC members running for reelection November fourth in Ohio:

Representative Ron Amstutz District 1, Representative Marlene Anielski District 6, Senator Kevin Bacon SenateDistrict 3, Representative Nan A. Baker District 16, Representative Louis W. Blessing III District 29, RepresentativeTerry Boose District 57, Representative Andrew Brenner District 67, Representative Jim Buchy District 84,Representative Jim Butler District 4, Representative Margaret Conditt District 52, Representative Rex DamschroderDistrict 88, Representative Timothy Derickson District 53, Representative Mike Dovilla District 7, RepresentativeAnne Gonzales District 19, Representative Cheryl L. Grossman District 23, Representative Bob D. Hackett District 74,Representative Christina Hagan District 50, Representative David Hall District 70, Representative Bill Hayes District
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72, Senator Clifford Kime Hite Senate District 1, Senator Shannon Jones Senate District 7, Senator Kris Jordan SenateDistrict 19, Casey Kozlowski running for Ashtabula County Commissioner , Representative Allen Landis District 98,Representative Ron Maag District 62, Senator Gale L Manning Senate District 13, Representative Jeff McClain District87, Representative Kristina Roegner District 37, Representative Cliff Rosenberger District 91, RepresentativeMargaret Ann Ruhl District 68, Representative Barbara R. Sears District 47, Senator Bill Seitz Senate District 8,Representative Peter Stautberg District 27, Representative Michael Stinziano District 18, Representative AndyThompson District 95, Representative Ron Young District 61.

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18. VT Nuclear Education: Answering the Hype19. OSCE needs more monitors in Ukraine: Analyst20. Pegasus Targets Freeh On Orders From The President
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