We know all about the “innovative,
cost-effective solutions”.
We also know Big Ag will deny, deny, delay,
fund the Governor’s inaugural ball, suddenly we’re holding government meetings at
Farm Bureau headquarters, and that legislative leaders have determined that
it’s tactically better to disappoint rural citizens and those who care about
health, food and water than to ruffle a feather of Big Ag.
What I want to know is…When will the federal
government come down on Iowa?
The sooner the better….
Rural citizen and crop-share farmer,
Donna
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Release (HQ): Finalists for Grants to Improve the Gulf of
Mexico
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Finalists
for Grants to Improve the Gulf of Mexico
( Washington
, D.C. - Dec. 12, 2008) A total of $3.7
million is available to help selected organizations reduce pollutants that
contribute to the oxygen-depleted zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico
. The 10 finalists will support agricultural conservation measures, restore
wetlands and riverbanks, monitor water quality, and create a variety of
innovative, market-based programs to improve water quality.
"This seed money will grow
innovative, cost-effective solutions to speed up the cleanup of impaired
watersheds in the Mississippi River Watershed and cut the size of the Dead Zone
in the Gulf
of Mexico ,” said Benjamin H. Grumbles, EPA’s assistant
administrator for water.
These projects under the EPA’s Targeted
Watersheds Grants Program will reduce the sources of pollutants, including
runoff from developed land, soil erosion, agricultural fertilizers, and sewage
and industrial discharges. Parts or all of 31 states drain into the watershed
that flows into the Gulf of Mexico .
- Conservation
Technology and Information
Center ( West
Lafayette , Ind. ) for the
Wabash River Watershed
- Electric
Power Research Institute ( Palo Alto , Calif.
) for the Ohio River Basin
- Iowa
State University (Ames, Iowa) for the Raccoon River Watershed, Walnut
Creek Watershed, and Boone River Watershed
- The
Miami Conservancy District ( Dayton , Ohio
) for the Great
Miami River Watershed
- The
Nature Conservancy ( Nashville , Tenn.
) for the Lower
Hatchie River Watershed, Loosahatchie
River Watershed, and Wolf River Watershed
- The Ohio State University ( Columbus
, Ohio
) for the Upper
Scioto Watershed
- The
Wetlands Initiative ( Chicago
) for the Lower Illinois River-Lake Senachwine Watershed
- University of Kentucky ( Lexington
, Ky.
) for the Green River Watershed and
Kentucky River Watershed
- West Virginia University (
Morgantown
, W. Va. ) for the Kanawha
River Watershed
- World
Resource Institute (Washington, D.C.) for the Ohio River Basin, Upper
Mississippi River Basin and Lower Mississippi River Basin
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