Can we save the Gulf of Mexico? By Dr. Larry McKinney December 24, 2009 at midnight , Corpus Christi Caller-Times The president charged the heads of executive departments and federal agencies to develop a national policy recommendation to ensure the protection, maintenance and restoration of oceans, our coasts and the Great Lakes.    The task [...]

Farmers fear fallout from film, activists By PHILIP BRASHER and DAN PILLER, pbrasher@dmreg.com January 6, 2010, DES MOINES REGISTERActivists and artists are drawing attention to agricultural practices they say harm animals and the environment. Farmers worry that the notoriety will lead to new regulations and costs.    Two examples this week illustrated the conflict:    [...]

Bay 'dead zone' still bad in '09, But scientists have new knowledge of how it works By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer11/27/09, The Capital, Annapolis, MDCourtesy photo  Unusual weather conditions - dry weather in Pennsylvania and New York and a wet summer in Maryland and Virginia - threw off scientists' predictions, but gave them new understanding [...]

Watersheds Included in Iniative By Greg Hilburn, The News Star, Monroe, LouisianaDecember 3, 2009Three Louisiana watersheds, including two in northeastern Louisiana, are included in an $80 million, 12-state initiative to improve water quality in the Mississippi River Basin by managing fertilizer runoff from agricultural land.    Bayou Macon and Boeuf River watersheds in northeastern Louisiana, [...]

Editorial: Everglades restoration/Gulf research ... our tax dollars at work where we can watch By NaplesNews.com November 8, 2009 at 3:36 p.mLooking for worthwhile investments of your federal tax dollars? Two are in our backyards.    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded $53 million for a contract to restart an Everglades restoration project in [...]

FSU professor in charge of 'Operation Dead Zone' By Doug Blackburn, DEMOCRAT SENIOR WRITER November 9, 2009, Tallahassee DemocratDead zones are areas suffering from low oxygen, called hypoxia by scientists. The low oxygen is the result of nutrient pollution, believed to be caused by fertilizer use in the Midwest that seeps into the Mississippi River [...]

Feds' Bay cleanup plan: step forward or back? By Tim Wheeler November 10, 2009 6:30 AM, Baltimore SUN   The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Doug Siglin called the feds' draft strategy " a step forward," but didn't exactly bubble over with praise. "All in all, we're pleased that the federal government is stepping up and creating [...]

EPA proposes penalties in Chesapeake cleanup By David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post Staff WriterTuesday, November 10, 2009 Trying to impose new accountability measures in the failing effort to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, the Obama administration is considering an odd-sounding threat. Stop missing deadlines for cleaning up polluted waterways, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would [...]

Marine Scientists to Investigate Effect of Gulf Of Mexico 'Dead Zone' on Fish PopulationsNovember 10, 2009Thomas and colleagues at several universities have received $2 million in funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to study the effects of hypoxia (low oxygen) on fish reproduction and model the impacts of hypoxia on the size [...]

Upper Mississippi River Basin and Protection Act Kind, Klobuchar push river water quality legislation By Mark Sommerhauser, msommerhauser@winonadailynews.comThursday, November 19, 2009 12:15 am , Winona Daily NewsScientists could better understand pollution in the upper Mississippi River under a proposal by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, DFL-Minn., and Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis. Klobuchar and Kind want the U.S. [...]