Water’s Disappointing Outcome
Deal Reached for State's Environmental Spending Plan, from tcpalm.com TALLAHASSEE — After almost 36 hours without holding a meeting, budget-writers emerged Sunday night with a deal for the state’s environmental budget, ...
tcpalm: Sen. Negron Likely Can’t Secure $500 Million to move Lake O Water South
A proposal to reduce Lake Okeechobee discharges is likely dead this year after lawmakers decided they won’t use the state’s credit card to pay for environmental projects. Sen. Joe Negron’s ...
Guest commentary: Water storage is the heart of Everglades restoration
By: Eric Eikenberg, CEO of The Everglades Foundation The Florida Everglades Last month, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) voted to forgo purchasing U.S. Sugar-owned land to build a ...
Editorial: Florida Lawmakers should remove dancing shoes, get serious with Amendment 1
By Editorial Board, TC PALM.COM The Tallahassee Two-Step. It’s the political version of The Twist, The Dougie, The Macarena and Gangnam Style — dance crazes that swept the nation. The ...
Former Florida Governor and Senator Bob Graham speaks out about Amendment 1 and the preservation of the Everglades.
Miami Herald OP ED Piece: If we fail the Everglades, we fail Florida’s future Former U.S. Senator & Florida Gov. Bob Graham BY BOB GRAHAM On Dec. 6, 1947, President ...
All Aboard Florida Ridership & Fare Projections
tcpalm.com: WASHINGTON, D.C. — All Aboard Florida ridership information and ticket prices were publicly released for the first time Thursday as part of a lawsuit trying to block nearly $2 ...
Environmental Groups to press legislators for money to buy land
tcpalm: Florida environmental groups will pressure state legislators in the upcoming special session not only for money to buy land for a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee but also for ...
River Water Woes come with Lake Okeechobee Draining
By Andy Reid, Sun Sentinel "Toxic" and "scum" are not words that the Chamber of Commerce likes to see associated with Florida's waterfront lifestyle. Yet draining Lake Okeechobee to protect ...
Save Water Today. Have Water Tomorrow.
Toxic Algae's Here Again And it's likely to keep coming. Because the Florida legislature won't buy new land. Amendment 1, approved by 75% of Florida voters, calls for the acquisition ...