Wetlands

The Florida Chamber of Commerce and a major developers’ group are seeking to intervene in a high-stakes lawsuit over a move by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to shift permitting authority to the state for projects that affect wetlands.

The groups say Florida's application was riddled with errors and fast-tracked to get a decision before the Trump Administration leaves office.

Earthjustice said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to follow the rule-making process for transferring permitting authority used in Michigan and New Jersey.

The historic rise of South Florida sugarcane farming turned the giant Lake Okeechobee into a toilet for polluted waters draining from as far as Central Florida and flushing ruinously via canals to coastal estuaries at Fort Myers and Stuart.

Environmentalists argue the move would reduce protections for wetlands.

The cause of the decline and death of the Apalach is far more complex than just climate change.

Supporters say it will help reduce duplication over state and federal permitting and give Florida more control.

The state has been looking into assuming control of the federal wetlands permitting program off and on since 1992. Wednesday, the EPA held the first of two public hearings on the state application submitted in August.

Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection is applying to take over duties from the federal government related to protecting its wetlands. But...

On the western edge of the Florida Everglades sits 4 square miles (10 square kilometers) of gator-infested swampland, and a private firm is making big...

A Florida Senate committee, Wednesday, advanced a bill ( SB 1402 ) which aims to place a longstanding federal program that protects wetlands through the...

Every time it rains, storm water drains throughout South Florida pick up a slick admixture of gasoline, soot, detergent, fertilizers and other...