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ARTICLE REFERENCE: Basin Management Action Plans (BMAPs) What is a Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP)? It is the “blueprint” for restoring impaired waters by reducing pollutant loadings to meet the allowable loadings established in a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL).…
ARTICLE REFERENCE: BGATF Final Report Blue-Green Algae Task Force Consensus Document #1 11 October 2019 The Blue-Green Algae Task Force is an advisory body, appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis, to aid the Department of Environmental Protection in fulfilling its mission…
ARTICLE REFERENCE: Letter to Chief Science Officer RE: Clean Waterways Act SB 712 February 12, 2020 Dr. Thomas K. Frazer Chief Science Officer 3900 Commonwealth Boulevard Tallahassee, FL 32399 RE: “Clean Waterways Act” SB 712 Dr. Frazer, We write to…
ARTICLE REFERENCE: Clean-water coalition asks governor to veto watered-down legislation By Laura Cassels – March 24, 2020 A coalition of 50 clean-water organizations in Florida are calling on Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto the 2020 Legislature’s “Clean Waterways Act,” insisting…
ARTICLE REFERENCE: CS/CS/SB 712: Environmental Resource Management CS/CS/SB 712: Environmental Resource Management GENERAL BILL by Appropriations ; Community Affairs ; Mayfield ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Harrell ; Albritton ; Bradley Environmental Resource Management; Citing this act as the “Clean Waterways Act”; requiring the Department of Health to provide a specified report to…
ARTICLE REFERENCE: Fractures as Preferential Flowpaths for Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Injections and Withdrawals: Implications for Environmentally Sensitive Near-Shore Waters, Wetlands of the Greater Everglades Basin and the Regional Karst Floridan Aquifer System Authored by Sydney T. Bacchus Sergio…
ARTICLE REFERENCE: $300 million scheme to send polluted water underground is untested and unwise By RANDY SCHULTZ SEP 25, 2018 | 4:10 PM South Florida’s most important public agency may make a big mistake on South Florida’s most important public…
ARTICLE REFERENCE: Sugar’s decades-long hold over Everglades came with a price By Mary Ellen Klas HERALD/TIMES TALLAHASSEE BUREAU JULY 11, 2016 07:53 PM,UPDATED JULY 12, 2016 04:19 PM TALLAHASSEE Fifteen years after Jeb Bush and Bill Clinton reached a landmark…
ARTICLE REFERENCE: Big Sugar’s Influence Stretches from South Florida to Washington By GINA JORDAN • FEB 23, 2014 Sugar is one of the biggest special interests in Tallahassee. More sugar comes from Florida than anywhere else in the country. It’s grown in a 700,000-acre…
ARTICLE REFERENCE: Sugar Cane & Sugar Beets Political Influence Over the past two decades, there have only been three cycles in which the sugar industry contributed more to Republican candidates and party committees than to their Democratic counterparts: Way back…