Mississippi River Collaborative Offers Principles to Shape Minnesota...
CHAMPAIGN, IL– In a letter to Minnesota’s Commissioner of Agriculture, members of the Mississippi River Collaborative offer 11 guiding principles essential to the state’s plan for reducing farm...
View ArticleMassive Gulf Dead Zone signifies lack of action by EPA
This week, scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium completed their annual measurement of the Gulf of Mexico’s Dead Zone, which measured 5,800 square miles, larger than the state of...
View ArticleDead Zone Decision: EPA Must Act on Mississippi River Pollution
The U.S. District Court in Eastern Louisiana ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to determine within six months whether to set new limits on the pollution that is fueling the...
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From Toledo to the Gulf, Water Pollution Threats Increasing
USA—Just two days after hundreds of thousands of Toledo residents were advised not to bathe in or drink their own tap water, today scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium released...
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City of Hattiesburg Must Clean Up Wastewater
Photograph by Tim Kiser. A boat ramp along the Leaf River at Hattiesburg, 4 Jan 2004. Hattiesburg, MS– On September 29, 2014, Judge Keith Starrett of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District...
View ArticleThe Case Heard ‘Round the EPA
Tuesday’s unanimous decision by the Board of the Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) to sue three rural counties upstream of the city’s drinking water intake system should be echoing throughout the halls of...
View ArticleMRC Group in Wisconsin Helps Citizens Challenge Permit, Cites Environmental...
On Monday, nine residents concerned with a proposed expansion of rail lines carrying crude oil through the Upper Mississippi River Basin filed a legal challenge to the Wisconsin Department of Natural...
View ArticleCourt Rules EPA Accountable under APA
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision on April 7, 2015 in Gulf Restoration Network et al. v. McCarthy. At issue is EPA’s refusal to make a determination as to whether or not limits on...
View ArticleMassive Dead Zone Announced, EPA Sidesteps Goal
New Orleans, LA—Today’s Dead Zone announcement from Louisiana researchers revealed that EPA has failed to meet a major goal it set in 2001 to reduce Mississippi River water pollution that is destroying...
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MCE Demands EPA Enforce Clean Water Act
St. Louis, MO: It has been four years since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) rejected Missouri’s proposed nutrient standards for lakes, and neither the State of Missouri nor US EPA has...
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MRC Group Files Lawsuit Against EPA
St. Louis, MO: The Missouri Coalition for the Environment (MCE), a member of the Mississippi River Collaborative, has filed a lawsuit alleging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) violated its...
View ArticleA Clean Water Win in Iowa
Two of the Mississippi River Collaborative’s member organizations celebrated a recent win for clean water. An Iowa District Court sided with the Iowa Environmental Council and the Environmental Law...
View ArticleMRC Groups Fight Georgia-Pacific Permit
In Crossett, Arkansas, Mississippi River Collaborative groups, among others, have been fighting EPA for its approval of a permit for a Georgia-Pacific paper plant that they believe is polluting...
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Nitrogen & Phosphorus Pollution Worse, Not Better
It has been almost 20 years since the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force (HTF) was created to reduce, mitigate, and control hypoxia in the region, and over a year since its major...
View ArticlePrediction for 2016 Dead Zone is Massive
The newest Dead Zone projection from Louisiana researchers shows that EPA is far short of a major goal to reduce the hypoxic zone in the Gulf. In 2001, EPA pledged to reduce the Mississippi River...
View ArticleToxic Algae Persists, but No “Official” Measurement of Dead Zone This Year
On July 29, NOAA announced cancellation of the annual measurement of the Gulf Coast Dead Zone for the first time in 27 years, despite issuing a dire projection of its size earlier in the summer. Since...
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New Report Discusses Health Effects of Nitrates in Drinking Water
Today the Iowa Environmental Council released an overview of research conducted on the health effects of nitrates in drinking water. The report, entitled “Nitrate in Drinking Water: A Public Health...
View Article“Decades of Delay” Report Urges EPA to Protect Mississippi River
Mississippi River – The Mississippi River Collaborative (MRC) today released a report that implores the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take specific actions to regulate excess nitrogen and...
View ArticleMRC Org Reaches Settlement with EPA
St. Louis, MO: The Missouri Coalition for the Environment (MCE) settled a lawsuit on December 7, 2016 with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding its mandatory duty to issue effective...
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Un-Mucking Illinois’ Waterways
Photo courtesy of Prairie Rivers Network Environmental groups have settled long-running litigation against the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) over pollution from...
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