Lawyer Sanders says dead zone in Gulf of Mexico is 8,000 square miles and growing, but EPA remains silent.

Kentucky Waterways Alliance is among environmental groups from nine states that petitioned U.S. EPA to set and enforce pollution standards in the Mississippi River basin and the Gulf of Mexico. EPA’s failure is causing a huge dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. The petition followed on the heels of EPA’s announcement that the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is the second largest to date at 8,000 square miles.

The dead zone is an area of water where oxygen levels are too low to support marine life. It's caused every year by nitrogen and phosphorus pollution that flows into the gulf from the Mississippi River, much of it from fertilizer runoff from farm fields. According to Kentucky Waterways Alliance, Kentucky is responsible for 9% of the phosphorous and 6% of the nitrogen that contributes to the dead zone. The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is an area of water where oxygen levels are too low for marine life to live. Without oxygen, nothing lives. , is caused every year by nitrogen and phosphorus pollution flowing into the Gulf from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers.

Would U.S. EPA take any action if 8,000 square miles of land was void of life as a result of chemicals in runoff? My goodness, pollution in the uncontrolled runoff is killing one of God's most beautiful gifts to us.