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| 8/3/2006 | |
| For the third year in a row, bacterial contamination shut Florida beaches or prompted authorities to post health warnings for more than 3,000 days, according to an annual report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The report tallied 3,428 closing and health advisory days in 2005, a 2 percent increase from the previous year, but nearly double the number tracked in 2002. | |
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| 8/3/2004 | |
| Mercury pollution is pervasive in the nation’s lakes. Every fish sample EPA tested was contaminated with mercury, and the majority of the fish samples were contaminated with mercury at levels that could pose a public health risk. | |
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| 3/30/2004 | |
| When drafting the Clean Water Act in 1972, legislators set the goals of making all waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983 and eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waterways by 1985. More than 30 years later, we are far from realizing the Clean Water Act’s original vision. | |
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| 3/23/2006 | |
| When drafting the Clean Water Act in 1972, legislators set the goals of making all U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983 and eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waterways by 1985. More than 30 years later, we are far from realizing the Clean Water Act’s original vision. | |
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| 10/11/2007 | |
| More than 59 percent of industrial and municipal facilities across Florida discharged more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allow, according to a new report released by Environment Florida. | |
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