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The N2 Dilemma: Is America Fertilizing Disaster? A Grist Special Series , 'The Soil is Bleeding' Tom Philpott - 23 Feb 2010 9:47 AM, www.grist.org |
Land conservation signup is set PERRY BEEMAN , pbeeman@dmreg.com - February 28, 2010 , Des Moines register Farmers and landowners this year will get the chance to sign up for a key federal conservation program for the first time in four years, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told a Des Moines audience Saturday. |
Dead pigs used to investigate 'dead zones' Victoria Gill - Mar 4, 2010, Science reporter, BBC News There is a recent and rather macabre addition to the marine biologist's toolkit. Scientists in Canada are using the bodies of dead pigs, diverted from the butcher's shop, in their undersea laboratory. |
World's Largest Dead Zone Suffocating Sea James Owen in Stockholm - March 5, 2010, National Geographic News This story is part of a special series that explores the global water crisis. For more clean water news, photos, and information, visit National Geographic's Freshwater Web site. |
Manure becomes pollutant as its volume grows unmanageable David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post Staff Writer - Monday, March 1, 2010 At a $13 million plant outside Seaford, Del., chicken giant Perdue turns tons of manure into fertilizer, but added plants might strain the firm. (Mark Gail/The Washington Post) |
Rulings Restrict Clean Water Act, Foiling E.P.A. CHARLES DUHIGG and JANET ROBERTS - February 28, 2010, New York Times, David Walter Banks for The New York Times The mouth of Avondale Creek in Alabama, into which a pipe maker dumped oil, lead and zinc. A court ruling made the waterway exempt from the Clean Water Act. |
Dumping on manure, chemical fertilizer - March 1, 2010; Baltimore sun Which is worse for the nation's environment - animal manure or chemical fertilizer? |
Governor Culver's office publicly opposes "Manure in Water" bill -- HF 2324 Natalie Snyders, 515-282-0484, natalie@iowacci.org; Kristin Schaaf, 515-255-0800, kristin@iowacci.org - 2/23/2010; Iowa CCI More than 100 Iowans call on legislative leadership to stand up for clean water and "Kill the bill" |
EPA Budget Signals Good News for the Mississippi River - February 2010 ; River Currents Newsletter |
Guest column: Farm drainage proposal based on sound science BILL NORTHEY: agri@IowaAgriculture.gov; WENDY WINTERSTEEN: wwinters@iastate.edu - February 26, 2010 ; Des MOINES REGISTER The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and Iowa State University have been looking at ways to reduce nutrient loading in our state's waterways for the past 22 years. After these years of study, it's time to move forward on a pilot project now. |
EPA Budget Signals Good News for the Mississippi River - February 2010 , River Currents Newsletter |
Iowa CCI: Governor Culver's office publicly opposes "Manure in Water" bill -- HF 2324 IowaPolitics.com, Natalie Snyders, 515-282-0484, natalie@iowacci.org Kristin Schaaf, 515-255-0800, kristin@iowacci.org - 2/23/2010 More than 100 Iowans call on legislative leadership to stand up for clean water and "Kill the bill" |
Nasty, nurturing nitrogen Holly Moeller - February 23, 2010 The uncomfortable truth about humanity and the nitrogen cycle |
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Guest column: Don't rush redesign of farmland drainage DES MOINS REGISTER - February 17, 2010 |
Follow the countys lead Editorial - Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010, TAMPA BAY newspaper |
Our Voice: Stop studying Great Lakes woes and use grants to start addressing problems Bay City Times staff - February 07, 2010, 5:58AM Organizations eager for a slice of the $475 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative pie showered the U.S. Environmental Agency with about 1,500 proposals. |
Fight seen over ban on winter spreading of manure PERRY BEEMAN pbeeman@dmreg.com - February 14, 2010 , DES MOINES REGISTER |
Environmental group pushes back against HGS Walter Pierce - Thursday, 11 February 2010, The Independent Weekly, http://www.theind.com |
Don't back down: Protect our water THE REGISTER'S EDITORIAL , Des Moines Register - FEBRUARY 11, 2010 |
State ag chief holds Q&A WHITNEY PANDIL-EATON Staff Writer wpandileaton@minotdailynews.com - January 31, 2010 |
Meat eater's balancing act Diane Toroian Keaggy - 01/20/2010, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH |
Major coastal restoration financing starts, slowly, in Barack Obama's 2011 budget plan Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune - February 01, 2010, 7:24PM Susan Poag/The Times-Picayune archiveThe biggest chunk of the Louisiana Coastal Area money is expected to be spent on building wetlands with material dredged from the Mississippi River during routine maintenance dredging.The dredge Borinquen was photographed on the Mississippi River in October, near the entrance to the Harvey Lock. |
Groups gauging Ohio River's pollution levels James Mayse, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky. - 26 January 2010 |
Funding for Louisiana coastal restoration in Obama's budget is a milestone: An editorial Editorial page staff, The Times-Picayune - February 03, 2010, 6:29AM Louisiana's fight to save its shrinking coastline will get vital help in the Obama administration's proposed 2011 budget, which includes $35.6 million for larger coastal restoration projects. Pete Souza/The White HousePresident Barack Obama. |
Task Force Eyes New Measures Of Mississippi River Nutrient Reductions John Heltman - Jan 4, 2010 An EPA-led task force on reducing nutrient pollution in the Mississippi River Basin and Gulf of Mexico is considering diversifying its progress indicators beyond just measuring the size of the Gulfs so-called dead zone and has identified six projects and programs that could serve as models for reducing nutrient pollution throughout the watershed. |
Reaction swift and sour to EPA water rules Michael Peltier, The News Service of Florida and Posted by Aaron Deslatte - January, 15 2010 3:47 PM , ORLANDO SENTINEL TALLAHASSEE The electronic ink had yet to dry Friday on proposed new federal water quality standards for Florida before combatants chimed in. |
Nitrogen, the other greenhouse gas Jessica A. Knoblauch - Thu, Jan 14 2010 at 5:22 PM EST The often-overlooked global warmer is worse than CO2, and its numbers are increasing. |
Earth's growing nitrogen threat, It helps feed a hungry world, but it's worse than CO2. Mark Clayton Staff Writer of The Christian Science Monitor - January 12, 2010 Nitrogen fertilizer being used on an Illinois farm. |
EPA Proposes Freshwater Nutrient Limits for Fla., a National First TARYN LUNTZ , Greenwire - January 15, 2010 , New York Times U.S. EPA proposed pollution standards for nutrients in Florida waters, the first such proposal for any state. |
King Corn and Big River follow food from seed to harvest and beyond Straus Newspapers - January 14, 2010 |
Film highlights Iowa farming practices MATTHEW WILDE, matt.wilde@wcfcourier.com - Monday, January 11, 2010 9:45 pm, WCFCourier.com, The Cedars Valley homepage |
EPA Proposes Standards to Protect Floridas Waters: Action would decrease amount of phosphorus and nitrogen pollution Enesta Jones, jones.enesta@epa.gov, 202-564-7873, 202-564-4355 - 01/15/2010 WASHINGTON The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing water quality standards to protect peoples health, aquatic life and the long term recreational uses of Floridas waters, which are a critical part of the states economy. In 2009, EPA entered into a consent decree with the Florida Wildlife Federation to propose limits to this pollution. The proposed action, released for public comment and developed in collaboration with the state, would set a series of numeric limits on the amount of phosphorus and nitrogen, also known as nutrients, that would be allowed in Floridas lakes, rivers, streams, springs and canals. |
Copenhagen: Look to the Sea? David Biello - December 10, 2009, Scientific American The oceans may be largely overlooked at the climate conference in Copenhagen, but they will bear the brunt of climate change. David Biello reports |
Theory for dead zone off Oregon Coast Keely Chalmers - December 17, 2009 at 9:21 AM, kwg.com, news channel, Portland, Oregon EUGENE, Ore. -- After 7 years of research, a team of OSU scientists believe they know, in part, whats causing the dead zone off the Oregon coast. |
Aggresive federal efforts could test bay group David A. Fahrenthold - December 18, 2009 , The Washington Post |
OSU scientists believe global warming contributing to growing dead zone off Oregon coast Shelby Bateson - December 20, 2:53 PM, Green Technology Examiner |
A voice for Chesapeake Bay has a grim message Rex Springston - December 28, 2009 , Richmond Times-Dispatch Howard R. Ernst calls himself "staunchly moderate," but he has this radical notion that Chesapeake Bay polluters should clean up their own mess. |
Can we save the Gulf of Mexico? Dr. Larry McKinney - December 24, 2009 at midnight , Corpus Christi Caller-Times With the many major initiatives occurring since President Obama took office, the interagency Ocean Policy Task Force may have been overlooked. |
Farmers fear fallout from film, activists PHILIP BRASHER and DAN PILLER, pbrasher@dmreg.com - January 6, 2010, DES MOINES REGISTER Iowa farmers are taking an uncomfortable turn in the spotlight. |
