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A proposed agreement designed to force EPA to provide more oversight over animal feeding operations and discharge permits in Pennsylvania could signal a willingness on the part of the agency to look more closely at using its Clean Water Act authority to reduce nutrient pollution in watersheds nationwide.

Scientists are predicting a record sargassum bloom in 2023. It’s already starting to wash up on beaches in Florida and the Caribbean and cause a stink.

Of warmer waters and nutrient pollution, which drives a lot of red tides and toxic algae blooms around florida. all yourfort fertalizers and hurricanes mix them up and you see these toxic blooms. it could be a similar trend with this stuff. it could also be an ally, and theres a fix for this, actually. i was talking to agua culture specialists who are in the business now of capturing carbon with seaweed, and they tomorrow, you could have a dozen guys from maine down there with the equipment to d...

Ocean currents, a gyre that keeps it in place as it deco decomposes. this one has broken off and has doubled in size in a month. and scientists think maybe it has to do with warmer waters due to climate change, nutrient pollution, phosphorus, nitrogen. weve seen that sort of trigger the red tide and the toxic algae blooms around florida as well. its hitting the yucatan peninsula now, the beaches there. it probably wouldnt hit florida until july or so. >> and what can be done to prevent this from...

Lawmakers presented several pieces of legislation that would advance the states marine industries while protecting wildlife.

Officials in Hernando County closed the Spring Hill Water Reclamation Facility during a Tuesday ceremony.

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $6 million in funds from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to support Tribal Nations across the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB) in reducing nutrient pollution on Tribal lands in the Basin.

Nutrient pollution caused by winter warming in the contiguous US is affecting several bodies of water.

The US Supreme Court opens its 2022-2023 term with a case that could greatly reduce federal protection for wetlands. Here is what makes these ecosystems valuable.

Romania would borrow 60 million euros from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), for a project aimed at reducing...