Blog posts from around the country

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Rick Scott exercised a line-item veto removing all funding for Florida Forever in the state budget. The Florida Legislature had approved $305 million for environmental land acquisition.
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The draft ordinance presented to the county commissioners closely followed the Pinellas County ordinance passed in 2010 — the strongest urban fertilizer management ordinance in the state.
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Hendry County commissioners voted to rezone 3,127 acres near the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation from general agricultural to utility uses, allowing FPL to build a natural gas and solar energy power center.
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HB 421 would encourage wetlands destruction and development on farm land.
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Be Floridian is a multimedia campaign to get the word out on how to maintain Florida yards in such a way as to protect our most valuable water resources.
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More than a year after it began, the Deepwater Horizon disaster is far from over and Gulf Coast communities continue to suffer.
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Farmton is a proposed 23,000-residential unit development with more than 4 million square feet of commercial space on remote environmental sensitive land in Volusia County.
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The Sierra Club's national mercury hair-testing program has been a great success, with free testing events held in more than 30 cities in 20 states.
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This was a tough session for the environment, but it could have been worse.