Enviro Groups Petition DEQ to Limit Nutrient Pollution on Big Hole River Two conservation groups are petitioning the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to designate the Big Hole River ...

“Five years of monitoring data indicating clear exceedances of nitrogen and phosphorus water quality standards signal the need for pollution control planning to reduce nutrient discharges and ...

“So we’re really using the power of plants to help uptake pollution in the water, specifically nutrient pollution,” she said. “We really were starting to see water getting worse and wors ...

Excessive nutrients (nitrates ... exposed places such as rocks and can be used as an indicator species for air pollution. are commonly used to determine air pollution as many species will only ...

But nutrient runoff is a much bigger problem," he said. Vermont has stepped in, with programs like the Clean Water Initiative. The program tracks and regulates pollution from stormwater runoff and ...

Nutrients pollution is linked to algal blooms, which can deplete dissolved oxygen and affect aquatic life. The two organizations submitted materials they said DEQ should already have in its ...