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Residents of Toledo, Ohio, a city on the shores of heavily polluted Lake Erie, seen above, in the U.S. voted to give the lake rights of nature. A local farm responded by filing a lawsuit claiming this violated the rights of agribusinesses. Seeking ways to block an oil pipeline through the Great Lakes ecosystem where Frank Bibeau, a lawyer from .