Water managers declare Everglades nearly clean; the people who live there say not yet
By Jenny Staletovitch March 3, 2017 Miami Herald For much of the last year, the South Florida Water Management District has circulated a set of maps plotting water quality that ...
Sen. Negron: Plan to curb discharges by speeding up dike repairs won’t work
By Tyler Treadway March 2, 2017 TC Palm In a memo to fellow senators Thursday, Senate President Joe Negron dismissed a proposal to curb Lake Okeechobee discharges by holding more ...
First Big Win In Effort to Save Small Wetlands
Written by Stuart Attorney Virginia Sherlock of Littman, Sherlock & Heims, P.A. The Local Planning Agency voted 3-1 in a jam-packed chamber Thursday evening to deny approval for CPA 17-07 ...
Everglades Foundation: Restoration project would have $20 billion impact
By Susan Salisbury February 28, 2017 Palm Beach Post As the controversy over a proposal to purchase land for a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee continues, Tuesday the Everglades Foundation ...
Eve Samples: Economic Council co-founder resigns, citing U.S. Sugar
By Eve Samples February 24, 2017 TC Palm Bud Jordan is not a radical. He has been an investment broker in Stuart for more than four decades. He's a member ...
A southern reservoir would curb more Lake Okeechobee discharges
By Tyler Treadway February 23, 2017 TC Palm Holding more water in Lake Okeechobee sounds like a simple enough way to limit polluted discharges to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers. But when ...
Florida water managers call for ending federal court oversight of Everglades clean-up
By Jenny Staletovitch February 23, 2017 Miami Herald A quarter century after the state promised to clean up polluted farm water fouling the Everglades in a historic federal court order, ...
Guest column: Are ‘little’ wetlands worth saving? [Excerpt]
By Maggy Hurchalla February 22, 2017 TC Palm . . . Recently, the chairman of the Martin County Commission and the head of the Economic Council of Martin County joined Big ...
Martin County commissioners propose 16-county Lake Okeechobee summit
By Tyler Treadway February 21, 2017 TC Palm STUART — Martin County commissioners want everybody to know everything about a proposal to build a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee to curtail discharges to the St. ...