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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.
This week, Governor Ron DeSantis signed the EAA Reservoir project’s “partnership agreement.” Meanwhile, in DC, House Democrats are still desperate for some power grabs.
I helped introduce the bipartisan Blue Carbon For Our Planet Act, which would help protect critical ecosystems like the St. Lucie Estuary, Lake Worth Lagoon and Indian River Lagoon from damage.