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🌖 It’s Thursday, August 14 . Here’s what’s on deck:

Federal cuts to solar programs

Managing for floods

Deer flies

But first,

A new treatment could finally clear this lake

dopaminergic / Flickr

Starting next month, researchers will drop a cocktail of naturally-occurring chemicals from a boat in the middle of Lake Carmi, in Franklin County. The hope is that the mixture, called “alum” will suppress toxic cyanobacteria blooms at the lake for at least a decade, an

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