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PODCAST: Combating algae blooms

An assessment of economic growth, combating algae blooms, and tobacco funding dries up.

The Government latest assessment of economic growth is due tomorrow morning. More on what we might expect from that report. Plus, the EPA issued new rules this week clarifying which streams and smaller waterways fall under federal protection. Among other things, the new rules will address fertilizer runoff which contributes to algae blooms. Lake Erie has been especially hard hit and NOAA is issuing experimental early season forecasts of blooms in that region. Plus, in California, tobacco taxes are used to pay for preschool and other early childhood services. But that funding is drying up as people quit smoking. Which poses the question: what will replace it?

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