Cost to reduce Gulf of Mexico “dead zone”- $2.7 billion a year

• Chuck Abbott

It would cost $2.7 billion a year to reduce by two-thirds the size of the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico through reductions in nutrient runoff, says a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The dead zone, blamed on nutrient runoff from the Mississippi River basin, is the… » Read More