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Internal Watchdog Says EPA Must Get Busy Protecting Waterways from Nutrient Pollution

September 1, 2009

Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution , Reviving the World's Oceans , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
cleanwateract, deadzone, gulf, mississippiriver, nutrientpollution, water, waterpollution, waterprogram

I recently attended a conference about the health of the Mississippi River, and I was struck by a compelling analogy my colleague Matt Rota of the Gulf Restoration Network used to describe the giant Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico.  The...continued→

The Gulf Is Dead! Long Live the Gulf!

July 30, 2008

Posted by Jon Devine

Tags:
dead, gulf, mexico, simplesteps, zone

This week brought news that the Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone,” an area of water with very low oxygen that forms each year, was the second biggest on record.  That’s not good news for the critters of the Gulf, which find...continued→