Environment

The federal council appointed to oversee the restoration of states affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill approved $302 million dollars for restoration projects Wednesday.Environmental Protection Agency Associate Deputy Administrator Doug Benevento said 73 million of those dollars have been allocated for projects along Florida’s Gulf Coast.

Welcome to this week’s Environmental Roundup! Here’s what caught our eye in the environment this week.

Florida has applied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to have control over permitting in the wetlands. Only two other states, New Jersey and Michigan, do their own permitting.

This Fall, voters in Collier County will decide whether to reestablish funding for Conservation Collier by levying a nominal property tax in order to enable the program to purchase and protect sensitive lands.

Manatee County Voters will have their say on whether to create a fund dedicated to land and water conservation.

Welcome to this week’s environmental roundup! Here’s what caught our eye in the environment this week.

Welcome to this week’s roundup of environmental stories that caught our attention.

The FWC approved draft rules in July that would change the listing for “conditional” species, like Burmese pythons and Nile monitor lizards, to "prohibited."

As flooding becomes more frequent, and hot, sticky Florida gets even hotter, a group of young people, ages 13 to 21, are suing Florida governor Ron DeSantis, Secretary of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried, and Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Noah Valenstein, among other officials, over climate change. The eight young people are asserting their right to a healthy future is at risk in Reynolds v. Florida.

Officials in Sarasota and Holmes Beach have been voicing opposition to Ocean Era's proposed Almaco jack fish farm for months.