“Good news. Mississippi River mud apparently the cause”
Maybe not, considering all the toxins the river pours into the gulf. I don`t think there are any artificial fertiliser eating bacteria.
Exactly the opposite.
Why do you think phosphates were banned from detergent?
Why do you think nitrate runoff from livestock operations is banned?
Precisely because these fertilizers ( as in “fertile”) allow plants, algae, etc to grow. Add a lot of fertilizer and lots of algae grow. When these die, their decomposition uses oxygen, sometimes depleting the water of so much oxygen that fish die.
Don’t get too caught up in things the EPA labels “toxins”. They have labeled carbon dioxide a “toxin”. While you have been reading this YOU have been pouring toxins into the atmosphere! They just classified spilled milk as an “Oil Spill”.
“...the EPA has decided that, since milk contains oil, it has the authority to force farmers to comply with new regulations to file “emergency management” plans to show how they will cope with spilled milk, how farmers will train “first responders” and build “containment facilities” if there is a flood of spilled milk.”