Deep Red State Fights Blue-Green Algae Blooms - With A Carbon Sequestration Twist

A new method for attacking blue-green algae blooms could pack a carbon sequestration punch in red and blue states alike.

Perhaps the anti-ESG faction should pay more attention to the dark clouds threatening businesses in their own home state. Specifically, climate change is threatening the state’s all-important recreation industry.

“In the southwestern and south central United States, toxic marine algae have been killing fish in freshwater lakes since 2000,” EPA notes. The agency also cites otherincluding warmer water, higher levels of carbon dioxide, and more extreme storms that can exacerbate nutrient runoff. “Harmful algal blooms have been in the news a lot lately, from the massive scums lining the Florida coast to the blue-green mats that covered Utah Lake and forced its closure,” the Utah Division of Water Quality noted in an update posted last July. ““Our experiences this summer with algal blooms across the state underscore the need to find and apply new data-collection methods for cyanobacteria,” DWQ added, referring to the scientific name for blue-green algae.

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