Editing Cleveland (section)

=== Environment ===
{{See also|Sustainable Cleveland}}
[[File:Bridge in Cleveland, Ohio.jpg|thumb|The west bank of [[the Flats]] and the [[Cuyahoga River]] in Downtown Cleveland, with [[Jacobs Pavilion]], Cleveland's [[amphitheater]]]]
With its extensive cleanup of its Lake Erie shore and the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland has been recognized by national media as an environmental success story and a national leader in environmental protection.<ref name="NYT-cuyahoga" /> Since the city's industrialization, the Cuyahoga River had become so affected by industrial pollution that it "caught fire" a total of 13 times beginning in 1868.<ref name="burning-river">{{Cite web |last=Grant |first=Julie |date=April 21, 2017 |title=How a Burning River Helped Create the Clean Water Act |url=https://www.alleghenyfront.org/how-a-burning-river-helped-create-the-clean-water-act/ |access-date=February 22, 2020 |website=The Allegheny Front }}</ref> It was the river fire of June 1969 that spurred the city to action under Mayor Carl B. Stokes, and played a key role in the passage of the [[Clean Water Act]] in 1972 and the [[National Environmental Policy Act]] later that year.<ref name="stokes-cuyahoga" /><ref name="burning-river" /> Since that time, the Cuyahoga has been extensively cleaned up through the efforts of the city and the [[Ohio Environmental Protection Agency]] (OEPA).<ref name="NYT-cuyahoga" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Piepenburg |first=Erik |date=June 7, 2019 |title=A Cleveland River Once Oozed and Burned. It's Now a Hot Spot. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/travel/cleveland-cuyahoga-river-pollution.html |access-date=August 8, 2023 |work=The New York Times }}</ref>

In addition to continued efforts to improve freshwater and air quality, Cleveland is now exploring renewable energy. The city's two main electrical utilities are [[FirstEnergy]] and [[Cleveland Public Power]]. Its [[List of climate change initiatives|climate action plan]], updated in December 2018, has a 2050 target of 100% [[Renewable energy|renewable power]], along with reduction of [[Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States|greenhouse gases]] to 80% below the 2010 level.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gearino |first=Dan |date=September 22, 2018 |title=100% Renewable Energy: Cleveland Sets a Big Goal as It Sheds Its Fossil Fuel Past |url=https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21092018/cleveland-100-percent-renewable-energy-cities-map-climate-change-plan-industrial-history |access-date=January 26, 2019 |website=InsideClimate News }}</ref> In recent decades, Cleveland has been working to address the issue of [[harmful algal bloom]]s on Lake Erie, fed primarily by agricultural runoff, which have presented new environmental challenges for the city and for northern Ohio.<ref>{{cite news |last=Vandenberge |first=Jordan |date=August 10, 2020 |title=Local company developing antidote to Lake Erie algal blooms |url=https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/local-company-developing-antidote-to-lake-erie-algal-blooms |access-date=December 30, 2020 |publisher=WEWS-TV }}</ref>