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ARTICLE REFERENCE: ARMY CORPS WANTS ‘IMMEDIATE’ CHANGES TO LAKE OKEECHOBEE MANAGEMENT By Kimberly Miller Posted Jul 17, 2019 at 8:54 AM Updated Jul 18, 2019 at 12:33 PM Changes in how Lake Okeechobee is managed are in such an “immediate” need that the Army Corps of Engineers is rushing through rule…
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…