Abstract
Culminating an intense 5‐year effort, President Clinton sent to Congress on January 18 a consensus‐based action plan to deal with the summertime hypoxic “dead zone” that appears each spring and summer in the northern Gulf of Mexico (see Eos, July 18, 2000, p.321). The plan aims to reduce the hypoxic area to less than 5,000 square kilometers by 2015, about two‐thirds less than the running average over the past 5 years. The plan states that “the best current science” indicates that the aim should be for a 30% reduction in nitrate and other forms of nitrogen discharge from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers. This represents a compromise that stops short of declaring a nutrient reduction goal.
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