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Unsettling		25 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Unsettling The Bush administration is asking a federal judge to put the kibosh on a settlement that it reached 19 months ago with environmental groups to protect endangered manatees off the coast of Florida. The feds last year agreed to tighten procedures for issuing permits for waterfront development plans that might affect manatee habitat; they also said they would create manatee refuges where boating would b ...
Topics: Florida, marine life, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Flow-rida		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 ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Interior, Florida, politics, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Unbridled LUST		08 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Unbridled LUST Leaking underground storage tanks (LUST) of gasoline have contaminated at least 25,000 sites around Florida, giving rise to concerns that the state's drinking water supplies could be tainted, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Scientists say the contamination is a result of Florida's love affair with gas; the state ranks ...
Topics: energy, Florida, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (all these topics)

California Scheming		31 May 2002	Daily Grist
California Scheming This week's announcement by President Bush that his administration would spend $235 million to protect Florida's pristine areas from oil and gas drilling has aroused both the ire and the envy of California environmentalists, who saw the deal as a family favor designed to aid the reelection bid of First Brother and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R). Cali ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, Florida, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Brotherhood Has Its Priviliges		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
Brotherhood Has Its Priviliges Some of Florida's natural wonders will be protected from oil and gas drilling, thanks to two major deals announced yesterday by President Bush. The first, a completed $115 million buy-back of drilling leases off the shores of Pensacola, will protect the beaches of the ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, land stewardship, Mexico, mining and drilling, National Environmental Trust, politics (all these topics)

Listen to a Story 'bout a Man Named Jeb		16 May 2002	Daily Grist
Listen to a Story 'bout a Man Named Jeb In a move that divided the state's environmental community, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) signed a law yesterday that will provide millions of dollars of funding to restore the Everglades. On the up side, the law will create a bonding program worth $100 million per year -- money that will be matched by federal funds -- to finance land purchases, studies, and the removal of a decades ...
Topics: Florida, land stewardship, wilderness (all these topics)

Holy Sinkhole!		01 May 2002	Daily Grist
Holy Sinkhole! Central Florida's main source of drinking water is being contaminated by a toxic leak from one of the nation's oldest Superfund sites, according to federal authorities. Ten years ago, the U.S. EPA ended the cleanup of a Tower Chemical plant that manufactured pesticides for the citrus industry; now, an unidentified pesticide-related chemical has seeped from a sinkhole below the plant's ...
Topics: Florida, rivers and watersheds, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Al Gore Rhythm		15 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Al Gore Rhythm Speaking at the Florida Democratic Party Convention -- widely regarded as the first stop on the 2004 campaign trail -- former Vice President Al Gore attacked the Bush administration on Saturday for favoring corporate America and trashing environmental protections. In his most outspoken speech since the 2000 presidential campaign, Gore decried the return to "the days of deficits ...
Topics: Al Gore, elections, Florida, political groups, politics (all these topics)

Supremely Bad Judgement		12 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Supremely Bad Judgement The Florida Supreme Court dealt a blow to environmentalists and landowners yesterday by ruling that property owners in the state must continue to foot most of the bill for Everglades restoration, despite overwhelming support for a 1996 amendment to the state constitution that would have made polluters pay instead. The court determined that the ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, food and agriculture, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

White Trash Turns Green		14 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Alabama, education, Florida, Georgia, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Sting Operation		13 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Sting Operation Okay, everyone knows you can't take so much as a nail clipper on an airplane these days -- but how about a scorpion? Last month, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service inspectors in Miami impounded a shipment of 600 of the critters, plus 2,000 reptiles and other invertebrates. That's a lot of crawly things, but the shipment was just one of untold others that are, well, f ...
Topics: Florida, globalization, placemaking, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Bang Dugong		13 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Bang Dugong The animal that inspired seafarers to tell tales of mermaids is disappearing from the planet, according to a report released this week. The dugong, a large sea mammal that is a cousin to the famous manatee of Florida and the Caribbean, was thought by ancient sailors to be half-woman, half-fish, perhaps because of its habit of holding its young with one f ...
Topics: Caribbean, Florida, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Peli-can!		22 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Peli-can! Good news from the Pelican State: Brown pelicans may be removed from the endangered species list in Louisiana following a highly successful reintroduction program. By the middle of the 20th century, the birds had disappeared from their namesake state (and were almost wiped out throughout the nation) due to exposure to the pesticide DDT, which caused them to lay eggs with shells too thin to protect de ...
Topics: Florida, Louisiana, Texas, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Blood Is Thicker Than Water		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 ...
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)

Minority Report		02 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Minority Report Officials in charge of reviving the Florida Everglades have created an outreach program to encourage minority involvement in the region's decades-long, multi-billion dollar restoration plan. The $11 million outreach program accords with 2000 legislation that granted federal funding for Everglades restoration and called on the South Florida Water ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, environmental restoration, Florida, green living, politics (all these topics)

That Extincts!		11 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
That Extincts! Environmentalists in Florida are concerned about state plans to weaken protections for the manatee and the red-cockaded woodpecker. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has developed a new set of criteria to gauge what levels of protection animals deserve, and it has indicated that the woodpecker and manatee may now merit lower levels. To qualify as endangered in the state, a species must now have lost at l ...
Topics: Florida, wildlife (all these topics)

Lake It or Not		12 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Lake It or Not Overuse and pollution of the world's lakes threaten nearly 1 billion people who depend on lake water for fishing, irrigation, transportation, tourism, sewage, and drinking water, global experts said during an international conference on lake management being held this week in Japan. More than half of the world's lakes and reservoirs are alr ...
Topics: Africa, Aral Sea, Florida, Great Lakes, Lake Victoria, lakes, North America, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Gulf Not Up to Par		24 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Gulf Not Up to Par Global warming will bring troubled times to the Gulf Coast in the next 50 to 100 years, according to a study released yesterday by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Ecological Society of America. The report predicts flooding, droughts, and shortages of fresh water from Laguna Madre to the Florida Keys. Rising sea levels will cause problems in a region that is already overdeveloped, and freshwater will be ...
Topics: climate, Florida, oceans (all these topics)

Whoop-de-do		18 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Whoop-de-do Folks who happened to be scanning the skies in central Wisconsin yesterday were witness to a strange sight, as people in bird costumes flying ultra-light aircraft led a flock of nine whooping cranes on the first leg of a 1,250-mile migration. The flight was part of an experiment to teach the extremely rare birds to migrate from the state's Necedah Wildlife Preserve to the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge in ...
Topics: Florida, wildlife, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Ready, Willing, and Cable?		09 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Ready, Willing, and Cable? Environmentalists are concerned about a proposal by the state of Florida to streamline a lengthy approval process for laying undersea fiber-optic cables by creating four authorized submarine telecommunications corridors off Broward and Palm Beach counties. Under the proposal, cables laid within the corridors would be subject to a one-month approval process, rather than the yearlong process for other undersea cable ...
Topics: Florida, oceans (all these topics)

Dude, Where's My Pipe?		24 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Dude, Where's My Pipe? Many problems with the U.S.'s vast network of oil and natural gas pipelines don't get reported or are underreported to the federal Office of Pipeline Safety, and even if major mishaps are reported, the agency rarely fines companies for them, reports the Austin American-Statesman after a yearlong investigation. Past problems that didn't show up in the agen ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, Florida, politics (all these topics)

Please Don't Take My Sunshine State Away	Suzy Becker	10 Nov 2000	Ha.

Topics: Florida, politics (all these topics)

Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner	Ben White	05 May 1999	Muckraker
California State Senator and environmental booster Byron Sher (D) sent out invitations to a fundraiser recently and listed State Sen. Ray Haynes (R) among his supporters. Trouble is that Haynes is what you might call a movement conservative, given to labeling people like Sher "clean-air Nazis" and "environmental wackos." Sher's office explained the incident to the Riverside Press-Enterprise as a "typographical err ...
Topics: air pollution, Florida, Muckraker, NRDC, oil and gas drilling, politics, Texas, United States (all these topics)

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