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Guest AuthorMarch 10, 2015

Only two months into the New Year and already the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has started to release polluted water from Lake Okeechobee, resulting in water flowing into the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers, and the Indian River Lagoon, which is expected to continue over the coming weeks and months. Millions of Floridians are […]

Bruce RitchieOctober 16, 2014

The environment was front and center in Wednesday’s gubernatorial debate even if an electric fan received the most media attention. By now you may know that former Gov. Charlie Crist was on stage for about five minutes at the start of a televised debate without Gov. Rick Scott. That’s because of a dispute over whether […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 23, 2014

An editorial in Fort Myers’ News-Press early this month stated that 2014 will be the year of the environment, but I think a better characterization would be that 2014 should be the year of the environment. For years, environmental issues have been discussed at the local, state and federal levels but there has been even […]

Tag: Caloosahatchee River

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