Portman Expresses Lake Erie Concerns to Trump's Nominee for EPA Director

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Portman Expresses Lake Erie Concerns to Trump's Nominee for EPA Director

海角破解版 | By Jo Ingles

Published January 17, 2017 at 9:37 PM EST

a photo of Rob Portman — Senator Rob Portman discussed Lake Erie pollutions such as microbeads and algae blooms with President-elect Donald Trump's pick for EPA Director, Scott Pruitt.

The Republican U.S. senator from Ohio says he鈥檚 already talked to President-elect Trump's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency -- a choice who's controversial to many activists.

Rob Portman says he鈥檚 talked with Scott Pruitt, , about the health of Lake Erie.

鈥淗is responses were positive."

Portman says the two men talked about , invasive species and . The sSenator says he doesn't want to see the progress made on Lake Erie slowed or reversed.

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Jo Ingles is a professional journalist who covers politics and Ohio government for the Ohio Public Radio and Television for the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau. She reports on issues of importance to Ohioans including education, legislation, politics, and life and death issues such as capital punishment. Jo started her career in Louisville, Kentucky in the mid 80鈥檚 when she helped produce a televised presidential debate for ABC News, worked for a creative services company and served as a general assignment report for a commercial radio station. In 1989, she returned back to her native Ohio to work at the WOSU Stations in Columbus where she began a long resume in public radio.

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