The Big Sugar Sham?
October 19, 2016 SANDSpaper.com A strange state-level issue spilled into an awkward mess during a recent Pensacola City Council Meeting, when local officials were asked to back a somewhat odd ...
New mystery entity pushes local governments to oppose Negron’s Everglades reservoir plan
By Bruce Richie October 4, 2016 Politico TALLAHASSEE — A shadowy entity created last month is asking local governments in North Florida to pass resolutions opposing Sen. Joe Negron's Everglades ...
What’s really going on with the Loxahatchee Refuge?
By Randy Schultz September 13, 2016 Sun-Sentinel Credit: Steve Brooks Is the bigger threat to one of South Florida's natural treasures an invasive species or invasive politics? That treasure is ...
Big Sugar subsidiary lands $40M loan for Coconut Creek apartments
[How is this for irony? Big Sugar resists the calls for buying the land south, but they sure are buying up land in South Florida, and it's not to grow ...
Joe Negron’s plan to reduce Lake Okeechobee discharges faces challenges
By Isadora Rangel August 24, 2016 TC Palm A plan to reduce Image from flsenate.gov Lake Okeechobee discharges received much praise from Treasure Coast elected officials and environmental activists, but ...
Sugar farmers struggle to meet Everglades pollution limit
By Jenny Staletovich August 9, 2016 Miami Herald Farmers in the Everglades just barely met the legal requirement for cutting pollution in water over the last year. According to figures ...
Big Agriculture choking our waterways
By Brion Blackwelder, Marc Yaggi August 8, 2016 Sun-Sentinel Shocking images of guacamole-like toxic algae in Florida focused national attention on how something that sounds innocuous — nutrient pollution — ...
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