December 2, 2025
UMRBA joined 63 organizations, representing agricultural, navigation, and conservation organizations, across the Mississippi River Basin, in a letter to Congress requesting FY 2027 funding for the Gulf Hypoxia Program.
With funding through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Gulf Hypoxia Program supports collaborations among state governments, tribal governments, and agricultural, municipal, conservation, and other stakeholders in their collective, voluntary efforts to reduce nutrient runoff from nonpoint sources in ways that also have many supplemental national benefits such as waterways transportation reliability, water storage, and habitat.
