Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Image: Farm runoff. Image credit: Lynn Betts / USDA NRCS. Article by Elliott Negin. Union of Concerned Scientists: The Equation – December 12, 2023.

When I was living in Cleveland in 1969, the shores of Lake Erie were littered with dead fish and an oil slick on the Cuyahoga River, which snakes through the center of town, famously caught on fire. The main cause? Industrial pollution. For decades, the steel mills and other factories that lined the river had been spewing toxins into the air and dumping raw, untreated chemicals into the water, which emptied into the lake. […]

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