The Midwest takes a dump in the Gulf!

All the pesticides, fertilizer, oil and industrial gunk that sits in the river during winter - gets "flushed" by Spring melt. As a consequence of treating the Gulf of Mexico as out "out house" there is a 70-150 mile dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi Delta.



Visible proof of how foul and irresponsible we are to ourselves and the planet!

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Mystery Oil Slick off Grand Isle, LA

This sediment plume looks pretty ugly up close: it's brown, nasty, and carries a lot of stuff in it that is very bad for the Gulf: pesticide and fertilizer runoff, sewage overflows, and oily runoff from all our paved roads and parking lots that's been building up over the winter. This is what causes one of the Gulf's worst, chronic environmental problems: the giant "dead zone" that forms every year. Read more at blog.skytruth.org

 

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