Matt Rota

As Louisiana continues to reel from flooding and chemical spills in the wake of Hurricane Isaac, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) is trying to quietly change the rules to make it easier to pollute our waters. Specifically, they are attempting to weaken their “antidegradation” rules, which are required by the Clean Water Act […]

Mountain of Coal at International Marine Terminals, downriver from the Myrtle Grove Marina. Over the last few months, GRN’s Healthy Waters Team has been busy fighting to keep the Gulf’s waters and wetlands safe for ourselves and future generations. From the effort to ensure that coal terminals don’t pollute Louisiana’s last hope for coastal restoration

As our members and friends know, we have been working with our conservation partners to fight the nitrogen and phosphorus pollution that causes algae to clog Florida’s rivers. Well, we were just informed about a massive, unprecedented bloom of thick green slime on the Santa Fe River near Gainesville. Just in time for the Memorial

This article is excerpted from Wave Maker’s News, our quarterly update on all things water in the Gulf of Mexico, check out the full newsletter here. Nitrogen and phosphorus pollution from farms and cities across much of the country (and parts of Canada) eventually dumps into the Gulf of Mexico, contributing to the Dead Zone.

Examining water samples from Four Mile Marsh. You can read more about our trip to the marsh in this edition of Wave Maker’s.Here in the Gulf south, it seems like winter passed by in a flash, and I have my doubts how long spring weather will be with us. Amidst the rapid change of seasons,

Today, I, along with groups from the Mississippi River Collaborative, announced two legal actions that we just filed against the U.S. EPA objecting to their inaction to address the pollution that causes the Dead Zone. The press release is below. Also, check out some of the media coverage from the Baton Rouge Advocate, Washington Post,

Regretfully, Louisiana is attempting to take a huge step backwards away from cleaning up the Gulf Dead Zone. The Dead Zone, an area in the Gulf of Mexico where oxygen levels get so low that sea life must swim away or suffocate, has long been an acknowledged hazard to the coastal waters of Louisiana. Despite

As I stated in a press release a few days ago, Louisiana has decided to take Louisiana’s Gulf waters off of their impaired waters list, despite the impacts the Dead Zone has on Louisiana’s waters, fishermen, and wildlife. You can check out a radio interview that I did on the subject here, as well as

This article is excerpted from Wave Maker’s News, our quarterly update on all things water in the Gulf of Mexico, check out the full newsletter here.Picture taken off of Sanibel Island, FL. For more pictures of polluted Florida waters, visit http://goo.gl/N7kVI.In November 2011, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted unanimously to protect tiger

For the past fifteen years, GRN has been working hard to raise awareness and stimulate action to address the Dead Zone. Something that we have consistently said is that Louisiana needs to be doing a better job of raising heck about upriver states polluting our Gulf. Regretfully, Louisiana is taking the opposite approach by removing