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Star Tribune editorializes on nitrogen pollution
The Star Tribune, in a July 12 editorial, praises what it calls a “painfully honest” appraisal by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency of our state’s nitrogen pollution problem. The report, … Read more
New USGS report on streams
A new U.S. Geological Survey report on the water quality of rivers and streams across the country describes damage caused by reductions in flows and increased pollution from fertilizers and … Read more
Cover crops work, users say
Cover crops – typically grasses sowed into corn and soybean fields after the fall harvest – could reduce nitrogen losses to Minnesota streams and rivers by 10 percent if the … Read more
Major report documents extent of Minnesota nitrate pollution
Nitrate – much of it from fertilizers applied to farmland – pollutes many Minnesota rivers and streams and contributes to the oxygen-depleted “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, a … Read more
Court rules in wetlands case
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional a Florida conservation district’s demand that a landowner take substantial steps to mitigate the loss of wetlands the owner planned to develop. The … Read more
L.A. plans huge groundwater clean-up
The Los Angeles water utility plans to spend $600 million to $800 million to clean up groundwater contaminated by industrial pollution in the San Fernando Basin, a federal Superfund site. … Read more
Nutrient credits eyed in Pa.
Read an interesting article from Pennsylvania about a proposal for the state to sponsor long-term, large-scale nutrient-credit trading to help clean up Chesapeake Bay. The article is from Lancaster-ONLINE, published … Read more
Phoenix curbs water use
Arid Phoenix leads the way on some water conservation measures, says a New York Times article published this week. Read about what the city is doing, and not doing, to … Read more
Freshwater Society in the news
Read a Star Tribune article on Master Water Stewards, the partnership between the Freshwater Society and the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District. The program, supported by a Clean Water Fund grant, … Read more
Clean Water Accountability Act
The Minnesota Legislature this year enacted a package of law changes directing the Pollution Control Agency and the Board of Water and Soil Resources to be more specific and targeted … Read more