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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. It’s a difficult problem that’s concentrated in agricultural regions that drain into the Mississippi […]

The EPA established the hypoxia task force in the late 1990s to reduce nutrient pollution and shrink the dead zone, but it relies on voluntary efforts.

ST. LOUIS — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aqua

ST. LOUIS -- The nations rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently released Environmental Protection Agency assessment.

The nation's rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. It's a difficult problem that's concentrated in agricultural regions that drain into the Mississippi River. More than half…

The nation's rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life

A recent report finds the federal government is spending billions on crop failures caused by extreme weather -- and it’s only growing more expensive.

More than half of the Mississippi River basin’s rivers and streams were in poor condition.

An EPA assessment of water quality in U.S. rivers and streams shows almost no progress on cutting the nitrogen pollution from farm chemical runoff.

An EPA assessment of water quality in U.S. rivers and streams shows almost no progress on cutting the nitrogen pollution from farm chemical runoff.