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The algal bloom on Lake O is now 500 square miles, making it larger than the size of New York City and Los Angeles.
I would have hoped that President Biden would have more respect for this Memorial Day tradition, which raises awareness for the 82,000 service members who are still missing in action and the 22 veterans who die by suicide each day.
Letting the sugar industry write the management plan for Lake Okeechobee is like letting the fox guard the henhouse.
Decades of special-interest driven policy making have destroyed the ecology and repeatedly turned the Indian River Lagoon into an algae-infested toxic waterway that kills manatees.
I wrote the White House urging President Biden to overturn his administration's decision and grant Rolling To Remember their permit request!
Memorial Day traditions like Rolling to Remember have been granted permits by every administration, Democrat and Republican, for the past 30 years.
Right now, harmful algal blooms on Lake Okeechobee are testing over 100 times more toxic than the EPA considers safe for human contact.
Nobody should lack access to clean and safe water, but sadly, that’s the reality for people on the Treasure Coast nearly every summer.
As we continue to get closer to the summer wet season, I will also do everything I physically can to prevent the Army Corps from dumping this toxic water onto the Treasure Coast.
More than half of fish and wildlife in the Everglades system are affected by toxic mercury and people in Florida are at some of the highest risk in the whole country for mercury poisoning.