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1. Mississippi River Groups hit EPA with dual legal actions on pollution that fuels dead zone. |
Prairie Rivers Network and other Mississippi River Collaborative partners announced two lawsuits filed against USEPA on Tuesday:
- The first lawsuit challenges the EPA’s denial of a 2008 petition to the agency asking for quantifiable standards and clean up plans for Dead Zone pollution.
- The second lawsuit seeks to compel EPA to finally respond to an even older petition – a 2007 request that EPA modernize its decades-old pollution standards for sewage treatment plants and include the Dead Zone pollutants nitrogen and phosphorus in those standards. Current technology has evolved making it reasonable and feasible for sewage treatment plants to remove nitrogen and phosphorus.
2. Our once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stop the carp and invest in infrastructure.
3. Electrical aggregation, green energy, and water.
4. The Upper Mississippi River Essay Contest is wrapping up tomorrow, March16.
In addition to being published in the newsletters for Prairie Rivers Network and the 1 Mississippi Campaign (over 5,000 readers) the winning essay will also be published in Our Mississippi newsletter, reaching another 1,000 plus people!
Find out more or submit your essay!
5. Run/walk with us, or cheer on the Illinois Marathon runners at our water station.
Join in the excitement of the Illinois Marathon!
Prairie Rivers Network is hosting a water station at mile 23 of the marathon. We’re looking for volunteers to join staff and members of our board of directors in handing out water and cheering the marathoners on to the finish line.
If you can commit to joining us from 8:15 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 28th, please sign up here. The password is prn2012.
6. What do you think are the most important issues facing clean water right now?
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