The Ohio Legislature just cut the funding for H2Ohio, a statewide water quality program aimed at improving the lake’s toxic algae, from $270 million to $165 million for fiscal 2026 and 2027.

The enormous and self-replenishing supplies-perhaps 200 or 300 million tons-of these seaweeds in the oceans of the world have been commercially exploited so far primarily in the production of alginic ...