1. EPA Releases Hypoxia Plan.
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ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL engineering - Abstract
This article reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on November 19, 2007 released an updated plan to address a growing "dead zone" that occurs in the Gulf of Mexico each year as a result of excess nutrients flowing into and from the Mississippi River. The plan outlines broad strategies for reducing nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous by 45% by 2015 and could have ramifications for wastewater-treatment plants and the construction industry firms that design them.
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- 2007