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Local government leaders from across Florida say they support their community’s fertilizer bans.

A highly anticipated new report from the University of Florida argues there isn’t enough research to determine whether seasonal fertilizer bans help stop pollution from dumping into Florida waterways. It’s a claim that questions a tool that scores of local Florida governments, including nearly two dozen in Pinellas County, have used for years in an effort to improve water quality. The ...

A recent report from the Buzzards Bay Coalition and other regional science groups has helped corroborate how much nitrogen and phosphorus cranberry bogs put into the environment and offered new

Falmouth, Sandwich and Mashpee have reached a tentative agreement as to how the towns will clean up nutrient pollution in Waquoit Bay. The three towns plan to move forward once

Tariffs and sugar subsidies have propped up overvalued land needed to fix the environmental damage.

This summer’s oxygen-poor “dead zone” in the Chesapeake Bay was the smallest since scientists started monitoring it in 1985, according to estimates by researchers in Maryland and Virginia. The good news for the bay could reflect the lower-than-average rainfall in the bay watershed this year, experts said. Rainwater carries pollutants into the Chesapeake, inundating the estuary with nutrients ...

The government said the rules date back to when the UK was in the EU, but plans to scrap them were defeated.

Estuary scientists say it’s time to keep investing in wastewater upgrades.

About 3,500 homes in the Dorset Council area are in planning limbo due to water pollution rules.

The Falmouth Water Quality Management Committee has formed a working group to look at urine-diverting technology as a potential means of reducing nitrogen pollution in Falmouth.