Third species of algae found blooming in Southwest Florida waters
One type of algae, red tide, has caused massive fish kills in Southwest Florida since October, and now the dead fish are fueling a completely …
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Bullsugar is leading the fight to end toxic discharges to the coastal estuaries of South Florida and restore America’s Everglades by rerouting clean freshwater south …
Environmentalists vs. farmers: Dueling reports complicate Florida reservoir debate
Building a sprawling South Florida reservoir to stop pollution from sliming up the coasts and to deliver more water to ailing marshes in the Everglades …
Orvis Takes Out Full-Page Ad to Urge Lawmakers to Protect the Everglades
Reader’s of Florida’s largest newspaper opened the front section yesterday to find a full-page ad featuring a powerful message from Orvis CEO Perk Perkins, who …
Sallie James discusses sugar subsidies
Pardon the pun but the sugar industry gets a sweet deal courtesy of US taxpayers. Why is the sugar lobby so powerful? Despite being only …
Sugar’s (too?) sweet political deal
Here’s how a relatively small industry manages to win big in Washington and short change the Everglades.
Everglades Coalition Urges FL Legislature To Buy 65,000 Acres
The Everglades Coalition is supporting legislation calling for the purchase of 65,000 acres of land just south of Lake Okeechobee in Florida, which they believe …
Everglades Short Documentary
Everglades Short Documentary from Captains for Clean Water Perhaps ASA should take a page out of the Peter Metcalf and Yvon Chouinard playbook and pull …
Lake Okeechobee reservoir plan moves to Tallahassee
The battle over healing Florida’s freshwater heart moved to Tallahassee yesterday as lawmakers hear the first formal presentation in an ambitious bid to buy farm …
Miami-Dade County Commissioners Refuse to Support Plan to Restore the Everglades
For nearly 20 years, Florida has planned to buy back land from Big Sugar companies south of Lake Okeechobee to help restore clean water flow …