Healthy Gulf has released a new report on assessing existing and proposed fertilizer manufacturing facility pollution along the Mississippi River in Louisiana.
Despite the disproportionate concentration of existing fertilizer production facilities, multiple new facilities have been proposed in Louisiana, threatening to more than double the amount of nitrogen impacting waterways and community health. Fertilizer pollution, including ammonia, nitrogen, and phosphorus is a key driver of the Dead Zone that forms at the mouth of the Mississippi every year.
Over the decades, tens of millions of pounds of fertilizer production pollution have been dumped into the Mississippi in just Louisiana. This report raises an opportunity to reduce the pollution that drives the Dead Zone and pollutes communities.
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