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Apr 5, 2019 18 tweets 4 min read
John Moran: It’s time to unfriend fertilizer

The pollution that is sickening Florida waters and threatening human health is caused by agricultural and lawn fertilizer, and human and animal waste. gainesville.com/opinion/201904… Florida County governments are legally obligated to reduce this nutrient loading.

Fertilizer application by farmers, in one county, adds an estimated 460,433 pounds of nitrogen to the aquifer