Seizing a Watershed Moment
ewg.org 5/27/2009 — May 27th, 2009 Executive Summary The Mississippi River flows more than 2,000 miles from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico and is the world’s third-largest river basin. Millions of residents get their drinking water from the ...

Mississippi burning — and flooding: Haley Barbour to be remembered as man who gave his state 90°F temps 5 months a year plus countless Katrinas?
climateprogress.org 7/7/2009 — Over the next few months, senators and other major state political figures will be taking sides on the climate and clean energy bill in front of Congress. Thanks to the new landmark 13-agency report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United ...

Mississippi burning — and flooding: Haley Barbour to be remembered as man who gave his state 90°F temps 5 months a year plus countless Katrinas?
theenergycollective.com 7/7/2009 — Over the next few months, senators and other major state political figures will be taking sides on the climate and clean energy bill in front of Congress.  Thanks to the new landmark 13-agency report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States , we now know how those state ...

Abuse of science and logic by the National Corn Growers Association
theenergycollective.com 7/6/2009 — The National Corn Growers Association released a report arguing that there is no connection between the use of nitrogen fertilizers on corn in the Midwestern US and the seasonal “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico. There is no point mincing words about what this “analytical white paper”. It is ...

Corn Ethanol blamed for Gulf Dead Zones?
theenergycollective.com 6/28/2009 — In recent years, there has been great uncertainty regarding the cause of the hypoxic zone (low oxygen) in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This has often been the result of a lack of data to support many of the prevailing theories regarding the size, duration and source of the problem. This paper ...

U.S. "dead zone" smaller but more severe: NOAA
reuters.com 7/28/2009 — Reuters: The "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, an area choked by low oxygen levels that threatens marine life, is smaller than expected this year but more deadly, the government said on Monday. The zone, caused by a runoff of agricultural chemicals ...

World Wetlands Day 2009
pruned.blogspot.com 2/2/2009 — (A view of the Mississippi River delta. Photo by Vincent Laforet for The New York Times .) It's World Wetlands Day once again. Yesterday we made some DIY frogs (folding instructions here ) and a couple of DIY turtles . Today we'll be sacrificing a ...

U.S.
bloomberg.com 12/17/2008 — Toyota to Delay Mississippi Prius Plant Construction (Update3) By Alan Ohnsman Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. , heading toward its first U.S. annual sales decline in 13 years, indefinitely delayed the opening of a plant in Mississippi that ...

Shock: World's Dirtiest Coastal Ecosystem Revealed- And it's in the USA
treehugger.com 7/13/2009 — Photo via Dragonfly 777 Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have just completed a rigorous study of the world's coastal ecosystems , and the results are shocking. The analysis uncovered the single dirtiest, most imperiled coastal ecosystem on ...

USGS Finds Sources for New Jersey-Sized Dead Zone in Gulf | Matthew Wheeland on GreenBiz.com
greenbiz.com 4/3/2009 — Every year, excess fertilizers and animal manure flow down the Mississippi River and empties into the Gulf of Mexico, leaving an increasingly large swath of the gulf completely lifeless. The Gulf's "Dead Zone," as it's commonly known, is largely the ...