Nutrient Reductions Seen Slow

Mississippi River Basin Lags Behind in Reducing Nutrient Runoff

Todd Neeley
By  Todd Neeley , DTN Staff Reporter
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Most Mississippi River basin states have not finished plans to reduce nutrient runoff into the Gulf of Mexico. (Map courtesy of the Lower Mississippi River Sub-Basin Committee on Gulf Hypoxia)
The EPA's Office of the Inspector General says most states in the Mississippi River basin did not meet the goal of completing nutrient reduction strategies by 2013, designed to diminish hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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