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According to the recent University of Florida study, these toxins can become airborne and travel roughly 10 miles from the blooms source.
Manatees are starving to death in record numbers. Even though we’re only halfway through the year, more manatees have died this year than they did the entire last year!
This week I testified before the House Appropriations Committee urging them to allocate $725 million for Everglades restoration this year.
History tells us that when water levels on Lake Okeechobee are high in the spring, the algae is worse during the summer.
Four of these Lake O regulation plans were written by the Army Corps of Engineers, but one of them - “Alternative BB” - was actually written by two lobbyists for the sugar industry.
There was an algal bloom the size of New York City on Lake Okeechobee, yet some are still claiming that this was all just a big coincidence - that it was caused by "leaky boats"!
In the coming weeks, the Army Corps will announce a new plan for managing Lake Okeechobee that will be in place for years to come.
I sat down with my children - Magnum, Maverick, Madalyn, and Major - to write letters to the Army Corps urging them to stop poisoning us!
Researchers in STEM fields are vital to our country’s economic success. The breakthrough scientific discoveries from this research often improve the world in ways we could never imagine before the research started.
No U.S Army Corps of Engineers personnel should be placed at structures on or around Lake Okeechobee when cyanotoxins above the EPA limit are present.