Matt Rota

Big Dead Zone news out of Iowa. The Des Moines Water Works has decided to move forward with a lawsuit against three Iowa Counties for the pollution they are dumping into Des Moines’ drinking water. This is the same pollution that causes the Gulf Dead Zone. Here is a statement from the Mississippi River Collaborative:Tuesday’s […]

If there is one thing that the Corps of Engineers loves to do is continue resurrecting projects that have been shown unnecessary or environmentally harmful. Maybe that is a little uncharitable, as the Corps does do a lot of great work, but it is frustrating to see that a project that we and our partners

Tell EPA: I’m For Clean Water!Yesterday at the Louisiana Coastal Restoration and Protection Authority Meeting, much of the meeting was focused on the Clean Water Rule that EPA and the Corps of Engineers have proposed. This rule is designed to clarify terms, specifically what constitutes a “Water of the United States,” that deserves Clean Water

Across the nation, water and wetlands are threatened by pollution and destruction, and no one is more impacted by this than Gulf Coast residents. We swim in waters that begin as small streams, we drink water from rivers that flow from many miles away, we cast for fish that are spawned in the wetlands and

New Orleans, LAToday scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium released their annual measurement of the Gulf Dead Zone, which measured 5,008 square miles, almost as large as the state of Connecticut.. LUMCON has been measuring the Dead Zone since 1985, and this year’s Dead Zone is three times larger than the Dead Zone Task

If you’ve ever spent a day floating along the Bogue Chitto, fishing the West Pearl, or otherwise enjoying one of Louisiana’s river or streams, you know that we have some of the most beautiful landscapes and waters in the country. Many of these water bodies receive special protection as “Outstanding Natural Resource Waters,” but the

Louisiana may soon take a huge step backwards in the effort to protect our coast and clean up the Dead Zone. The Dead Zone, which was the size of Connecticut last year, is an area that forms in the Gulf every summer where oxygen levels get so low that sea life must swim away or

A heavy load of sediment makes the Minnesota River look paler where it joins the cleaner Mississippi River in the Twin Cities. (2013, NAIP)In a new report released by the Environmental Working Group, entitled Broken Stream Banks, it is evident that Minnesota is not doing enough to protect their rural streams from pollution, including nitrogen

Antiquated treatment ponds at the mill. GRN photo, flight courtesy of Southwings.Back in the Summer of 2011, the Temple-Inland Paper Mill in Bogalusa, LA dumped some really noxious “black liquor” into the Pearl River and killed hundreds of thousands of fish and other critters. Since then, they have been bought out by International Paper and