Environmental groups say they want tougher wastewater rules to combat practices that have turned the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico into a "sewer."
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A boat chugs through dirty water where the Mississippi empties into the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo: Jeffery Dubinsky/Reuters) The image of an ocean dead zone is stark: a barren underwater desert of silt, littered with the bodies of suff... Read Post
Environmentalists say Chicago's wastewater is a major factor in creating the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, and a group of organizations is pushing for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to impose stricter standards on all... Read Post
The Oil Industry isn’t the only culprit in the slow destruction of the Gulf of Mexico — environmental groups claim that an area the size of Massachusetts is now a “dead zone due to Mississippi River pollution. A dead zone is an area... Read Post