Environment: Beaches

It's summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime, so the EPA has been moved to offer consumers info on the environmental status of beaches. Topics include water quality and pollution (sewer overflows, farm animal feeding, trash), health and safety, beach advisories and closings, and the like, plus details about EPA projects related to beach protection. It's not as bad as the days of hypodermics in the surf, but it's not a pretty picture, either. <http://www.epa.gov/beaches/>