Elizabeth Forsyth, Attorney, Biodiversity Program, Earthjustice: “EPA is the federal agency that at the end of the day is responsible for ensuring that our nation waters are clean and that species like the Florida manatee are protected and can thrive, and at the end of the day, it’s EPA who needs to come in and…
Miles de ciudadanos están utilizando sus cámaras y cuentas en redes sociales para documentar la terrible realidad de lo que está sucediendo en el Sur de la Florida, donde el gobierno bombea miles de millones de galones de agua contaminada por la gran agroindustria en el Lago Okeechobee.
A toxic algae outbreak in Lake Okeechobee that’s fouling waterways on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts has focused the national spotlight on Florida’s water pollution nightmare.
For those of us living here in sunny Florida, noxious green slime outbreaks like the one that shut Toledo, Ohio’s, water system, are now a year-round occurrence.
Right now, in the prime-time of summer fishing, surfing, and swimming season, health officials in one of the prettiest places in southeast Florida are warning people not to touch the water because it poses a dangerous health risk. A massive toxic algae outbreak along the Atlantic coast, north of Palm Beach, is turning the Indian…
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…
Clean water activists showed up in force today at the first of two US EPA meetings in Tampa to discuss setting limits on water pollution that comes from fertilizer, animal waste and sewage effluent.
On November 30, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency agreed to set numeric pollution limits for some 100,000 miles of Florida waterways and 4,000 square miles of estuaries.