In 2008, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) established a “pollution budget” for multiple lakes on the Coosa River due to impairments associated with industrial poultry farming and sewage overflows. Despite this action, little has changed in the past fourteen years. Today, the Coosa River is still suffering from major nutrient pollution issues and the threat of harmful algal outbreaks because state agencies lack the political will to hold industries accountable and fail to enforce benchmarks for curbing pollution…
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