Oceans can be restored to former glory within 30 years, say scientists
Funny, they left out theatthe Clean Water Act permit issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in September 2017 allows drilling companies to dump unlimited amounts of waste fluid, including toxic chemicals used in fracking, into federal Gulf waters off Texas and Louisiana. Federal records show more than 75 billion gallons of drilling wastewater were dumped into the Gulf in 2014.
The Gulf of Mexico suffers massive dead zones owing to huge amounts of manure and fertiliser running off midwest farms, and elsewhere albatrosses continue to be snared by long-line fishers, despite simple solutions being available.