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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 there's 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 do it, use trawlers and nets. crop it up on barges at sea and put it in the ocean. it pulls carbon o...
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. we've seen that sort of trigger the red tide and the toxic algae blooms around florida as well. it's hitting the yucatan peninsula now, the beaches there. it probably wouldn't hit florida until july or so. >> and what can be done to prevent this from hitting the beaches? >> i was talking to some experts actually up in maine who work with seaweed...
Lawmakers presented several pieces of legislation that would advance the state's marine industries while protecting wildlife.