December 16, 2016
A Louisiana federal judge on Thursday ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sufficiently explained its decision not to set federal limits on nitrogen and phosphorous in the ocean, striking down a lawsuit by environmental groups that said nutrient pollution has created a giant "dead zone" near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
February 16, 2016
Green groups on Monday urged a Louisiana federal judge to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to create rules to curb pollution causing low oxygen "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico.
September 23, 2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency can't simply refuse to make a determination in a petition concerning harmful marine "dead zones," a Louisiana federal judge ruled Friday, saying the agency must re-examine the request for rules to curb the pollution behind these die-offs.
March 15, 2012
Eleven environmental groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection in Louisiana and New York on Tuesday as part of a fight to curb a type of pollution that leads to massive algae buildups in so-called dead zones that choke marine life.