by Staff | Jan 22, 2018 | Agricultural Pollution, Blog, Dead Zone, Field Notes, Policy, River Culture, Water Quality, Wetlands and Floodplains
Entitlement and Privilege Entitlement and Privilege Freshwater is the one essential resource that every living thing has to have. No matter what you are, what complexion, what you believe in, where you come from, who you voted for, what you do, how rich, how poor-...
by Staff | Aug 10, 2017 | Blog, Dead Zone, Water Quality
Dead Zone Bigger than Ever – Report Reveals America’s Largest Meat Companies’ Role in Polluting Gulf of Mexico Guest blog by Matt Rota, Gulf Restoration NetworkOriginally posted August 2, 2017 on the Gulf Restoration Network...
by Staff | Jul 10, 2017 | Blog, Dead Zone, Policy
Mississippi River Mayors Speak Up for Clean Water July 10, 2017 Contact: Brooke Thurau, Mississippi River Network, 312-754-0407 (Chicago) — Seventeen mayors from states along the Mississippi River spoke up today about the need for increased efforts to improve...
by Staff | Dec 12, 2016 | Agricultural Pollution, Dead Zone, Policy, Take Action, Water Quality
The little stream was bright orange behind my grade school. Even as a first grader in the late 1960s in those days before the first Earth Day and before the Clean Water Act, I knew that it was bad to have an orange stream. The unnatural color came from a steel plant....
by Staff | Jul 27, 2016 | Agricultural Pollution, Blog, Dead Zone, Plastic Pollution
Beginning mid-August, Margo Pellegrino will paddle her outrigger canoe from Chicago to New Orleans with the hopes of raising awareness about water quality issues. The journey will take her through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (a human-made “hydrologic...
by Staff | Jul 19, 2016 | Blog, Dead Zone
It’s the season to measure the size of the “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico. Each summer, scientists examine coastal waters off Louisiana to see how large of an area is without sea life because oxygen levels in the ocean are too low. Agricultural runoff and other...
