⚠️ Taxpayers Stuck With Bill to Clean Up Water Polluted by Big Ag’s Chemical Fertilizer, Animal Waste
The reasons for the persistent pollution problem are multi-fold, including strong industry opposition to regulations to control the farm contaminants + a perverse system in which some gov't programs incentivize farming practices that add to the pollution even as other gov't programs try to induce farmers to reduce the pollution.
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A colossal tide of fertilizer and animal manure that runs off fields in Iowa and other farm states ends up in the Mississippi River. The same agricultural pollution problems are plaguing other iconic U.S. waterways, including Chesapeake Bay and Lake Erie.
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