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Latest EPA assessment shows virtually no improvement in river and stream nitrogen pollution

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and feed a massive dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a newly released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. It’s a difficult problem, concentrated in agricultural regions that flow into the Mississippi River.… Read More »

Latest EPA assessment shows virtually no improvement in river and stream nitrogen pollution

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and feed a massive dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a newly released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. It’s a difficult problem, concentrated in agricultural regions that flow into the Mississippi River.… Read More »