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Pass the Sugar, Sugar
Florida will buy out sugar company to restore Everglades |
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24 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:22 PM on 24 Jun 2008 Nearly 300 square miles of sugar plantation in the Everglades will once again become marsh, as Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced Tuesday that the state will buy the land from U.S. Sugar Corp. If all goes to plan, the $1.75 billion deal may be the largest environmental restoration in the history of the United States. Environmentalists have long lamented the sugar industry's role in ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Florida, habitat protection, industrial ag, national parks, news, progress, wetlands (all these topics) |
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Is He Everglade to Be There
McCain says he hearts Everglades, despite opposing bill with restoration funding |
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06 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:25 PM on 06 Jun 2008 Sen. John McCain swung through Florida last week, taking time for a boat tour of the Everglades on Friday. The Obama campaign promptly criticized McCain for his opposition last year to a water bill that included major funding for Everglades restoration. McCain said he would have supported a stand-alone Everglades bill, but the broader water bill was choc ... |
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| Topics: Florida, habitat protection, John McCain, legislation, national parks, news, politics, presidential race 08, wetlands (all these topics) |
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Fortune and Flame
Why the Everglades is burning, and how we sucked it dry |
Michael Grunwald |
21 May 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| It's hard to believe, now that it's been overrun by 7 million residents and 7 jillion strip malls, but southern Florida was once America's last frontier. As late as 1880, the census recorded just 257 residents in a county covering most of the region -- because most of the region was a watery wilderness called the Everglades. Mapmakers weren't sure whether to draw it as land or water. Politic ... |
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| Topics: Florida, habitat loss, news, sprawl, wetlands, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Ebb and Fla.
Reporter Michael Grunwald gabs about his new book on the Everglades |
Emily Gertz |
27 Mar 2006 |
Arts and Minds |
| For about 5,000 years, the waters of the peninsula we now call Florida flowed south into the Kissimmee River. The Kissimmee emptied into enormous Lake Okeechobee, which in turn spilled over into a vast, shallow sheet that slid slowly along the nearly flat expanse of south Florida to the ocean. This was the complex and subtle ecosystem of the natural Everglades, a seemingly endless marsh re ... |
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| Topics: Florida, wetlands (all these topics) |
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Swinging Both Ways
Bush Announces Environmental Money for Swing States |
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30 Jan 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Swinging Both Ways Bush Announces Environmental Money for Swing States A recent flurry of announcements from the Bush administration about proposed funding increases for environmental projects -- including salmon restoration and brush clearing in the Northwest, Everglades protection in Florida, and cleanup of the Great Lakes -- has some enviros suspiciou ... |
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| Topics: elections, Florida, Northwest, politics, rivers and watersheds, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics) |
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Round and Round They Go
Florida's Top Environmental Regulator Takes Job With Company He Regulated |
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29 Jan 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Round and Round They Go Florida's Top Environmental Regulator Takes Job With Company He Regulated Florida's top environmental official, David Struhs, resigned Wednesday to take a job with International Paper, a company he did controversial favors for while in office. As head of the Florida Department of Environmental Prot ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, Florida, politics, Sierra Club, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics) |
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They're Going to Pump You Up
Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases |
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14 Jan 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases In what court-watchers are calling an unusually in-depth review of environmental issues, the Supreme Court is set to hear two cases today with potentially nationwide implications for clean ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, energy, environmental justice, Florida, national parks, Northeast, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Southeast, toxics, West, wetlands (all these topics) |
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They Blinded Me With Pseudo Science
Bush Administration Waves Off Scientists Whose Findings Are Inconvenient |
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12 Nov 2003 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, Florida, Missouri River, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics) |
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Putting Their Lives on the Lime
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21 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Putting Their Lives on the Lime Hoping to halt a limestone mining plan that would destroy 15,000 acres of wetlands in the Florida Everglades, environmentalists sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday. The Corps has issued permits to mine 1.7 billion tons of limestone from Everglades wetlands for roads in so ... |
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| Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental non-government organizations, Florida, land degradation, mining and drilling, Sierra Club, wetlands (all these topics) |
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Flow-rida
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24 Jul 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Flow-rida The Bush administration yesterday revised its proposed rules for the $7.8 billion renovation of the Florida Everglades, with environmentalists greeting the changes as imperfect but undeniably better than the last draft. Under the new rules, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District would ... |
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| Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Interior, Florida, politics, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics) |
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Blood Is Thicker Than Water
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10 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Blood Is Thicker Than Water It was a family affair, but the significance was national: President Bush and his brother Jeb, the governor of Florida, signed an agreement yesterday to guarantee that water captured by a $7.8 billion Florida Everglades restoration effort ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental restoration, Florida, food and agriculture, green living, national parks, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, wetlands (all these topics) |
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