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		<title>Researchers: &#8220;Not So Fast&#8221; on Disappearing Oil in Gulf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2010/08/20/researchers-not-so-fast-on-disappearing-oil-in-gulf/</link>
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		<title>Report Reveals BP Disaster Part of Industry Pattern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More water from Lake O</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

The Army Corps of Engineers is charged with managing the level of Lake O, protecting life and property as their top priority. The concern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2010/07/23/more-water-from-lake-o/</link>
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		<title>Pink Shell Hosts Seminar on Oil Claims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Approximately 70 local business owners gathered in Pink Shell’s Lido Room last Thursday evening to hear a presentation given by the law firm Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart and Shipley concerning the BP claims process. The Greater Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce’s lawfirm – Knott, Consoer, Ebelini, Hart &#38; Swett – invited the east coast [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2010/07/19/pink-shell-hosts-seminar-on-oil-claims/</link>
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		<title>State Purchase of U.S. Sugar Land Under Attack - Express Your Support for Everglades Restoration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2010/07/13/state-purchase-of-us-sugar-land-under-attack-express-your-support-for-everglades-restoration/</link>
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		<title>Conservation Organizations File Suit Against Phosphate Mine</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2010/07/09/conservation-organizations-file-suit-against-phosphate-mine/</link>
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		<title>“Forbidden Zone” Likely to Keep Oil Away From our Coast</title>
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With all the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico and the pictures all over the television and the Internet of Louisiana beaches and marshes covered in icky red goo, many islanders and visitors alike are understandably terrified that one day our beach could resemble those already hit. However, I discovered this week that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2010/07/02/%e2%80%9cforbidden-zone%e2%80%9d-likely-to-keep-oil-away-from-our-coast/</link>
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		<title>Army Corps Begin Lower Releases From Lake Okeechobee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2010/07/01/army-corps-begin-lower-releases-from-lake-okeechobee/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m baaaack&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For everyone that has been posting such wonderful comments, I deeply apologize for my inattention to this blog in the last 18 months and promise to begin posting fresh material from now on. My only excuse is that I got promoted to Associate Editor at the independent paper that signs my paycheck, and my workload [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2010/07/01/im-baaaack/</link>
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		<title>Public Input Sought for Critical Watershed Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people will agree that the water quality surrounding our Island has been beautiful lately. The Back Bay is clear, our beaches are relatively free of red tide, and fish swim freely in the Caloosahatchee River. But we have been lucky. Barring a couple of releases due to Tropical Storm Fay, we have been spared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2008/10/25/public-input-sought-for-critical-watershed-plan/</link>
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