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Bay of Pigs' Waste
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24 Aug 2001 |
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| Bay of Pigs' Waste The U.S. Congress should give farmers more than $6 billion a year to help them restore wetlands and prevent agricultural waste from polluting the nation's waterways, according to American Rivers and Environmental Defense. They said yesterday that nearly half of the country's bays are too polluted for fishing and swimming because of fertilizer and manure runoff from farms and r ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, oceans, pollution and waste, wetlands (all these topics) |
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