CHANGE IN RUSSIAN TRADE STATUS HURTS LA. FERTILIZER INDUSTRY
by John Breaux
WASHINGTON (June 6) - U.S. Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) today expressed concern about a decision by the Department of Commerce to revoke Russia's non-market economy status ("NME") under U.S. antidumping laws and the negative impact the decision will have for the American nitrogen fertilizer industry: Full Story

Hypoxia In The Gulf of Mexico
In the environmental arena, "hypoxia" refers to a condition that exists in a body of water when dissolved oxygen falls below healthy levels necessary to support aquatic life. In recent years, researchers have identified an annual phenomenon which occurs off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico each spring. Large areas of oxygen-depleted waters, said to be thousands of square miles, occur on Louisiana's continental shelf. Researchers say that the "hypoxic zone" is caused by nutrients in the waters discharged by the Mississippi River. News media have labeled this annual hypoxic zone "the dead zone," although the area is not dead at all, but teems with life.
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