This is still very much true according to NOAA [0] A bit weird to make such a definitive statement about the, allegedly singular, culprit with "lawn runoff".

This is still very much true according to NOAA [0] A bit weird to make such a definitive statement about the, allegedly singular, culprit with "lawn runoff". It's really difficult, to nearly impossible, to trace back where the nitrogen and phosphorus originated from that results in oceanic dead zones thousands of miles away [1]. A good start would simply be to look at the biggest consumers of these fertilizers, and those ain't homeowners fertilizing lawns, those are industrial scale agricultural operations [2] for whom fertilizer use directly correlates with their financial bottom line [3]. [0] https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/happenowdeadzone/ https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/happenowdeadzone/ [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4216153/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4216153/ [2] https://www.epa.gov/agriculture/agriculture-nutrient-management-and-fertilizer#NutrientPollution https://www.epa.gov/agriculture/agriculture-nutrient-managem... [3] https://investigatemidwest.org/2021/11/30/excess-fertilizer-washed-from-midwestern-fields-is-slowly-poisoning-the-gulf-of-mexico/ https://investigatemidwest.org/2021/11/30/excess-fertilizer-...