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Brave Effort To Ensure A Clean Environment

By Nathaniel Reed December 9, 2017 TC Palm (Letter to the Editors, excerpt) ******* As one of the authors of the 1973 Clean Water Act, I attempted late in the ...

Brightline’s Simulated (Empty) Train Service

By Frank Cerabino December 9, 2017 Palm Beach Post I’ve got to hand it to the people at Brightline. They’ve come up with a brilliant move: Simulated train service. I can’t ...

Will Everglades Reservoir Be Big Enough?

By Jenny Staletovich December 6, 2017 Miami Herald Water managers planning a massive Everglades reservoir to help end polluted releases from Lake Okeechobee that regularly foul both coasts unveiled early drafts of ...
St. Lucie Inlet

Five Ways to Protect Florida’s Environment

By Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch November 29, 2017 TC Palm For too long, Florida’s natural treasures have been put on the back burner by politics. Our quality of life as Floridians and ...

Everglades Oil Well Application Rejected

By David Fleshler November 27, 2017 Sun Sentinel A proposal for an exploratory oil well in the Everglades of western Broward County was rejected again Monday by state regulators, although ...

Letter to SFWMD Demanding Clean Water

Send a letter to Mike Albert, project manager at South Florida Water Management District and Florida Governor Rick Scott, by filling in your information below and hit "Send". It's that easy. ...

Lake Okeechobee Discharges Top 100 Billion Gallons

By Tyler Treadway November 19, 2017 TC Palm Sometime Saturday, the 100 billionth gallon of water discharged from Lake Okeechobee since mid-September poured into the St. Lucie River. To put ...

Toxic Algae: A Severe National Threat

By John Flesher and Angeliki Kastanis November 16, 2017 Associated Press Toxic algae: Once a nuisance, now a severe nationwide threat MONROE, Mich. (AP) — Competing in a bass fishing ...

Bill Regulating High-Speed Trains Clears Senate Committee

By Jennifer Sorentrue November 14, 2017 Palm Beach Post   As All Aboard Florida’s Brightline prepares to launch service between West Palm Beach and Miami, a proposed bill regulating the company’s passenger ...