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...response to the growing problem, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - along with several other federal groups and the governments of states that feed into the Mississippi - released a plan of attack on Monday to reduce the Gulf's dead zone. The plan, an update of an effort launched in the waning days of the Clinton Administration in 2001, looks to harness state and federal action to reduce the flow of fertilizer into the Mississippi, much of which comes from agricultural sources that aren't covered by the regulations of the Clean Water Act. The ultimate goal is to shrink...
...urgent that the government seems ready to spend what it would take to truly revive the dead zone. Although Grumbles points out that an action plan isn't the same thing as a budget allocation, there's little evidence that anyone is prepared to bear the financial burden of drastically reducing fertilizer runoff in the Midwest. (It doesn't help that 31 states feed into the Mississippi River basin, or that multiple federal agencies are involved with the dead-zone task force.) A 2007 report by the National Research Council called for more aggressive leadership by the EPA to coordinate...
...acres for corn than they have since World War II - including 15 million more acres last year than in 2006. Although there are measures farmers can take to limit fertilizer runoff, those changes are expensive, and there's little federal funding to support such conservation. The just-released action plan relies mostly on voluntary activities. "We need Congress to act as if this is going to get done," says Doug Daigle, a member of the task force. "The state governments will contribute, but this has to be initiated by the Federal Government...
...that he lost the ability to do any deals with Democrats when his base refused to support him. The "base-first" strategy got him narrowly reelected in 2004, but shut down his legislative agenda when his second term began. The short-sighted strategy is what killed his Social Security plan in 2005 and, Brownstein points out, doomed his second effort to reform immigration...
...centerpiece of his effort to court the Latino voters whom strategists like [Karl] Rove and [Matthew] Dowd considered crucial to the party's future fortunes," Brownstein wrote. "It was also Bush's best chance for an important second-term legislative achievement after the collapse of his Social Security plan, not to mention an opportunity to make substantive progress against an entrenched problem. But Bush's overriding priority on unifying Republicans prevented him from achieving any of those goals. Instead, he was left with an immigration policy built solely around enforcement and symbolized by an exclusionary fence, an approach many Latinos...