HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS:The Environmental Protection Agency has made it’s ruling:
The lower Susquehanna River is not impaired (as the state’s Department of Environmental Protection recommended, despite protests from the Fish and Boat Commission).
However, the stretch of river from Sunbury to the Maryland border is also not, not impaired.
Instead, the EPA said not enough information is available to make a determination. The federal agency endorsed the more intense study of the river DEP began last year that is continuing… (more)
The key information is “insufficient science”. Until science can tell us what exactly is stressing the fish the EPA is correct to do nothing.
Perhaps the fish and boat commission can find the source of the problem instead of crying “the sky is falling”.