Lake Okeechobee

The study by the Environmental Integrity Project analyzed biennial pollution reports sent by states to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Friends of the Everglades Executive Director Eve Samples says the measure boils down to "manipulation of the new Lake Okeechobee plan."

The money will be used to hasten efforts to undo the damage the Everglades suffered in the early 1900s.

The Army Corps commander overseeing the new plan said Monday that a version of the plan, unveiled in June, will be tweaked but remain largely unchanged.

The plan selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would stop sending water south if levels drop too low in the dry season to protect water supplies.

Wilton Simpson took on some challenging questions from Tampa Tiger Bay Club members while saying population growth is the biggest challenge Florida faces.

While Florida’s endangered snail kite has rebounded a bit, the native species of snail it lives off has not. So the snail kite is changing its diet and moving on from its longtime habitat in the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee.

Alternatives for how the U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers plans to manage the lake all propose increasing water levels during the dry season to above 17 feet, raising concerns about the health of the lake.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released technical modeling results this week for operating Lake Okeechobee once it completes $1.8 billion in repairs on the Herbert Hoover Dike.

For decades, the Las Palmas neighborhood on the eastern edge of Everglades National Park has confounded water managers trying to restore the River of Grass, and stood as a warning to compromising on restoration work.

Heavy rain from the storm means the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may only be able to release water to the west. The Corps is also wrestling with saturated ground around South Florida and a conservation area in Miami-Dade and Broward counties about a foot too high.

The group advising Governor-elect Ron Desantis on environmental issues met Monday for the first time. Members focused on water quality and supply.