Category: Environment
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Everglades phosphorus pollution deadlines have finally arrived. Can Florida meet them?
By Kailey Aiken
FloridaBulldog.org
After decades of delay, Florida has reached a long-awaited milestone in Everglades restoration: the first court-ordered phosphorus pollution deadlines have arrived. But environmental advocates say the state is still falling short of producing water clean enough to protect the Everglades, while the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) argues its treatment plans are on track. -
Carnival hires D.C. lobbying firm to seek ‘relief’ from Trump regime for past environmental crimes
By Dan Christensen
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Whistleblower accuses Port Everglades’s Cliff Berry Inc., two other clean-up companies of fraud, illegally dumping oily sludge
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Port Everglades’s Cliff Berry Inc., two other clean-up companies accused of fraud and illegally dumping oily sludge. -
Broward County delays vote on Monarch Hill height increase in face of opposition by cities, residents
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
After a big build-up to a final decision, the Broward County Commission on Tuesday evening voted unanimously to put off for two months a decision on whether to let Waste Management supersize its Monarch Hill landfill to a height of 325 feet – 20 feet higher than the Statue of Liberty. -
Deerfield Beach asphalt plant worries neighbors, raises concerns about recycling radioactive waste
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Deerfield Beach residents are opposed to reopening a dormant asphalt plant they fear will endanger public health. But there’s more to fear, perhaps, as asphalt plants begin making recycled asphalt for roadway construction using radioactive waste from the state’s fertilizer industry. -
Broward commission postpones high-profile vote on ’emotional issue’ of mountainous north county dump
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
CLICK THROUGH TO SEE 11 A.M. UPDATE To dump, nor not to dump. That is the question. At 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, giant Waste Management will ask the Broward County Commission to alter the county’s land use designation on the site of a decommissioned waste-to-energy plant on company property that could provide it with 24.2 acres of new dumping ground adjacent to its towering Monarch Hill landfill in North Broward.
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