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Florida has just been approved to participate in the Federal Lost Wages Assistance Program, which will provide additional benefits to those currently receiving unemployment assistance. Click here to learn more and find out if you’re eligible:
The sugar lobby is at it again, stripping a provision I wrote to protect the Herbert Hoover Dike. This is a danger to all of South Florida. But apparently it is a danger that Florida’s private water barons believe is acceptable. Watch the latest #LakeOFactCheck:
Florida’s waterways are a natural treasure, and I will never stop fighting for what is right and necessary to defend our environment. That’s why I cosponsored half a dozen bills this week aimed at protecting our water and air.
The sugar industry’s favorite fake water groups & paid spokespeople have reached the pinnacle of hypocrisy. They just fought tooth & nail to oppose a provision in a bill that I helped write that would specifically protect public water supply. Seriously.
There is a massive human and environmental toll from the discharges to the Treasure Coast. And it's turning the Treasure Coast into the Tortured Coast. The Tortured Coast documentary series highlights the people and places being destroyed.
China’s total lack of transparency and mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak has cost hundreds of thousands of lives, millions of jobs and left untold economic destruction. We must hold China’s communist government accountable!
Congress has authorized nearly $6 billion on infrastructure projects to restore the Everglades by moving water south, but special interest lobbyists are now hard at work to stop the water from ever getting there. Our latest #LakeOFactCheck explores why:
This week the House of Representatives passed a bill I helped write, called the Water Resources Development Act, to help protect Florida’s waterways. This is great news! Learn more about the bill here:
This week Congress passed the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act to support our national parks – including the Everglades – and make funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) permanent. Learn more about this BIG win!
Congress just passed the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act to support our national parks – including the Everglades – and make funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) permanent. Learn more here!