When it comes to addressing the green slime issue, the Florida state legislature has missed a critical point.

Backpumping by industrial agricultural operations is allowing pollutant-laden waters into drinking water sources.

Earthjustice wins 11-year legal water pollution battle

Seafood lovers hooked on $1 oyster nights may soon have to find a new source of comfort for the work week blues. Thanks to an increase of carbon in both the atmosphere and our water bodies (which absorb about a third of all carbon emissions), carbon munching critters like crabs, lobsters and shrimp are getting…

Earthjustice has been working to restore the Everglades for decades.

“Back pumping” polluted water into Okeechobee can continue without Clean Water Act permits

Preservation deal revised, now cheaper

Bush administration okays pumping of polluted waters into clean rivers, lakes and streams

New rule flouts federal court decision, environmental advocates will sue

Controversial practice that pollutes drinking water supplies requires a federal permit

Federal judge rules that backpumping polluted water poses public health threats and orders water district to obtain federal clean water permits

Testimony of Florida Wildlife Federation Expert on How Backpumped Water Creates a Public Safety Threat to Drinking Water

Trial Exhibit of Photographs of Typical Polluted Backpumped Water Near City Water Intakes

Decision of US District Court in the Lake Okeechobee Backpumping case, finding for the plaintiffs (Friends of the Everglades)

Decision affects pending EPA rule that proposes allowing “pollution pumping” nationwide

Pollution of Lake Okeechobee is contaminating drink water supplies and destroying the St. Lucie River and Estuary.

Fact sheet on the Lake Okeechobee backpumping case

Outlines the legal arguments made by Earthjustice against the proposed water transfer rule and illustrates how EPA is attempting to create new pollution exemptions that are not exemptions in the Clean Water Act.