Big Sugar

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to the massive Everglades restoration project dissected in the WLRN podcast Bright Lit Place is the water polluted by phosphorous and other nutrients that run off from sugar cane farms.

Central Romana, one of the biggest sugar producers in the world, will now be banned from exporting sugar to the U.S., after the Biden Administration said it has information “that reasonably indicates the use of forced labor in its operations."

The federal fight against the soot and ash from pre-harvest sugarcane burns has ended — for now.

A decade-old billion-dollar deal in which the state would have bought out the nation’s largest sugar cane producer and restored the Everglades’ historic...

A new front in the ongoing battle between Everglades restoration and Florida’s sugar industry has opened up. This time, it’s over a planned water...