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Jun. 15, 2022 by Margy Eckelkamp, The Scoop magazine Yesterday, EPA announced $60 million in federal funding ($12 million/year for five years) to help reach the goal of reducing nutrient pollution in the Gulf of Mexico by 20% by 2025. "It's a great day for our nation's water," EPA Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox says. "It's going to help make some big progress on the pressing issue of nutrients." First Time Federal Funds Put Into the States Like This On the day of the announcement, she appeared on AgriTalk along with EPA Ag Advisor Rod Snyder. Fox emphasized the theme of partnerships and collaboration. While Snyder emphasized the need to provide a variety of tools and options to farmers to be part of this effort. "A lot of this funding is going to be state led and will be granted to all 12 of the states that are part of the Gulf Hypoxia Task Force," Snyder says. "We'll be providing guidance to the states to create granting opportunities at a local level. That could be conservation groups, ag organizations, but focused on opportunities to build capacity on the ground. This is the first time that through the Gulf hypoxia Task Force with federal dollars EPA is actually able to directly to invest in this program." Established 25 years ago across 12 states, the Hypoxia Task Force has been working through its cornerstone of state nutrient reduction strategies to reduce the footprint of the low-oxygen, hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Progress Watershed by Watershed Snyder says this new funding will accelerate the progress already being made "watershed by watershed." He says this will continue the voluntary frameworks used currently across the task force states. To read the entire article click here. Tweet |
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