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University of Georgia scientists have written a report disputing the
estimate put out by the Joint Information Center - a collaboration
between the federal government and B-P - that only 25 percent of the
spilled oil remains in the Gulf. Marine Sciences professor Samantha
Joye says one major misconception is that the oil that has dissolved into
water is gone.
She […]

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Next week is the tenth anniversary of the one of the worst oil spills ever to hit Florida beaches and, while Congress debates a response to the ongoing BP oil disaster, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF)has released a report detailing a decade of serious oil spills, fires, leaks and loss of life that have affected […]

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On Sunday, July 11, the Army Corps of Engineers began another 10 day period of increased water releases from Lake Okeechobee. This follows a period of reduced volume releases from July 1-11.

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This Wednesday (tomorrow), the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Governing Board will be under attack from protestors opposed to the U.S. Sugar land purchase.  The U.S. Sugar purchase, also known as the River of Grass project, is the seminal project that will reduce excess lake flows to the Caloosahatchee and represents the most meaningful […]

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Ed. Note: The Mosaic Company mine mentioned in the lawsuit below is located at the headwaters of the Peace River, a body of water that empties into Charlotte Harbor and flows into Estero Bay. Anything that adversely affects this water system ultimately flows downstream, potentially causing the destruction of our fragile back bay ecosystem. The […]

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On Thursday, July 1, 2010, the Corps will began a new, 10-day low level pulse release from the Lake to both the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie estuaries. Flows to the Caloosahatchee are to drop from an average 3,000 cfs to an average of 450 cfs. You read that right, it is July 1 – our […]

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This was originally published in the Island Sand Paper, Issue 381, May 30, 2008. Reprinted here with permission. A real eye-opener!
(FYI: Rupert Heine is a nationally-awarded photographer, twice nominated for The Pulitzer Prize. His Op-Ed pieces and editorials have been published in the Miami Herald, Minneapolis Tribune, and the Madison Capital Times. He has done […]

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 Senator Nelson sent this to us yesterday and we published it in the Sand Paper:
Start drilling.” Put those oil rigs off the protected beaches of Florida and in the preserved wilds of Alaska.In essence, that is what Washington Post writer Robert J. Samuelson urged in his column published in the Post recently.Drilling, right away, in […]

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This came from the Environmental News Service. Governor Crist does seem to be commited to helping our state be more green but some of the ideas presented here are not without controversy.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist  announced the 2008 Serve to Preserve Florida Summit on Global Climate Change. This is the second such summit convened by […]

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 I cobbled this together from several news bulletins today…

The Florida House passage of Senate Bill 542 today effectively extended the Florida Forever Program for 10 years at $300 million annually. SB542 passed unanimously in the House today and unanimously in the Senate April 23.
 
The pending $65 billion General Appropriations Act allocates $300 million to Florida […]

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