The Battle for Rights of Nature Heats Up in the Great Lakes

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By Independent Media InstituteMay 16, 2019, 12:44 pm242 pts
By Valerie Vande Panne In February, the voters of Toledo, Ohio, passed a ballot initiative that gives Lake Erie and those who rely on the lake's ecosystem a bill of rights. The idea is to protect and preserve the ecosystem so that the life that depends on it — humans included — can have access to safe,…

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