NEWS: Infrastructure “shouldn’t be controversial,” says President Obama in City Club of Cleveland Q&A

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• March 19th, 2015
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President Barack Obama addressed a crowd of 500 guests at the Global Center for Health and Innovation yesterday, focusing his remarks on the federal budget, middle-class economics and manufacturing opportunities. But both infrastructure and environmental regulation made it into the President’s comments as he welcomed questions from the audience...

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ALGAE: 5 things you should know before Friday’s state Lake Erie algae meeting

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• August 13th, 2014
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Collecting beach water quality samples at Villa Angela Beach in Cleveland. Since State Senator Randy Gardner and Representative Chris Redfern are hosting a special meeting of the Lake Erie Legislative Caucus this Friday—focusing on algae problems plaguing the lake and, most recently, the Toledo area’s drinking water—here are 5...

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VIDEO: James Earl Jones describes the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire [#Cuyahoga45]

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• June 19th, 2014
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In this clip from a 1978 documentary, Cuyahoga, James Earl Jones’ booming voice tells the tale of the famous 1969 Cuyahoga River fire that turned national attention on the state of our environment and inspired action in Northeast Ohio and far beyond.

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HISTORY: How a dying river saved our lives.

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• June 12th, 2014
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Two men wearing life jackets on a small boat on Lake Erie, 1976. Both the boat and the men are covered in oil polluting Lake Erie. Image courtesy of Cleveland State University Library Division of Special Collections. When the oozing Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969, consider that it...

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BASEBALL: Burn on, big river. Burn on.

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• April 4th, 2014
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Cleveland, baseball, and Randy Newman are forever linked. Ever since Major League hit the big screen in 1989, Newman’s song “Burn on” (1972) has come to be synonymous with Cleveland, the Cleveland Indians, and the start of summer. For us and our responsibility to protect Lake Erie, it means...

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GREEN: St. Patrick’s Day and 5 stories of green with Cuyahoga River connections

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• March 16th, 2014
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Our mighty Cuyahoga has never received the full Chicago River green-dye treatment, but it has some green tales to tell. Here are five interesting stories you may not have heard. 5. The Cuyahoga River was dyed green in 2008. Mysteriously. In January of that year, the City of Akron...

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#TBT: That time James Earl Jones narrated a film about the Cuyahoga River

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• November 21st, 2013
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LIST: Wait, people thought Cleveland was bad?

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• May 16th, 2013
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“16 reasons Cleveland is not as bad as you think”? We guess 16 is a fine place to start, but the list could go on and on, and there are a few glaring omissions. This week, Buzzfeed posted a fun piece with that title, noting examples like Charles Ramsey’s...

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VIDEO: Stunning footage! No seriously, it’s footage of us stunning.

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• April 19th, 2013
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Those who fish for sport might consider this cheating. For us, it’s science. One of the exhibits we’ll have on display at Earth Day Coalition’s EarthFest 2013 at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds this Sunday will be our electrofishing boat. It’s a craft we use to stun fish with a...

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NEWS: Don’t be shad. Fish die-off is common, natural

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• February 27th, 2013
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In recent weeks, hikers along Metroparks streams or winter-stroll beachgoers may have seen a surge of dead fish washed up on the shore. Is the die-off of these silvery blue-green fish a sign of environmental turmoil, or a natural occurrence? It’s the latter, and it happens regularly. Shad can’t...

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