Category: Environment
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Billions at stake as Port Everglades dredging project puts fragile reef system at risk
By Kailey Aiken
FloridaBulldog.org
Coral reefs across the east coast of Florida, once teeming with sea life and bursts of color, have become a shadow of what they once were, deteriorated into barren, monochrome plains. The causes are many, scientists say. -
Broward Solid Waste Authority’s draft master plan: We’ll need to dump trash at landfill for decades
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Broward Solid Waste Authority’s long-awaited master plan for the future of garbage disposal and recycling in the county has finally dropped, in draft form. -
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. -
Top Everglades restoration scientist Van Lent ordered to jail for indirect criminal contempt
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
One of the nation’s preeminent scientists involved in Everglades restoration was ordered to jail Thursday by a Miami-Dade circuit judge who found him guilty of indirect criminal contempt of court in May. -
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Everglades Foundation prosecutes former top scientist for criminal contempt in case that’s roiling Florida environmentalists
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
If Marjory Stoneman Douglas had a grave, she’d be rolling in it. The pioneering environmentalist and famed “Mother of the Everglades,” whose ashes were famously scattered across Everglades National Park wilderness upon her death in 1998 at age 108, could hardly have imagined two of the Everglades’ leading champions on opposite sides in a Miami court of law. -
Is the Florida Supreme Court building ‘sick’? Staffers reveal troubling symptoms, but no health regulators are watching
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The Greek Revival facade of the Florida Supreme Court on Duval Street in downtown Tallahassee may conceal a less elegant secret: It’s possible the building is what toxicologists call “sick.”
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