Your readers need to know a new report from EPA scientists states: 1) the largest water pollution problem is nutrient pollution; 2) agriculture is the primary cause and 3) factory “farms” are responsible for half of all nutrient pollution.
Your readers also need to know the Ohio Department of Agriculture just approved a renewal permit for a 2,000-head dairy factory “farm” in Wood County that annually applies millions of gallons of untreated manure, aka nutrient pollution, to fields draining into the Maumee River and Lake Erie.
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