Lake Okeechobee

Welcome to this week’s Environmental Roundup! Here are the environmental stories this week that caught our eye.

The Army Corps of Engineers has been releasing water from Lake Okeechobee as Tropical Storm Eta bears down on South Florida. This can be problematic in more ways than one.

Updated May 7 at 12:30 p.m. As the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gathers public input on how to operate Lake Okeechobee once it finishes $1.8 billion in...

Lake Okeechobee is Florida’s “Liquid Heart,” and people who depend on it for irrigation, drinking water, recreation and their livelihoods are often in...

United States Sen. Rick Scott was in Fort Myers on Friday to talk about passing federal legislation to tackle the rising costs of pharmaceutical drugs.The…

Building the reservoir to cut Lake Okeechobee discharges is now federal law. President Donald Trump signed the federal Water Resources Development Act...

Southwest Florida has been feeling the effects of water releases from Lake Okeechobee for weeks now – most obviously in Cape Coral where the canal-based…

Toxic algae again is blooming in Florida waterways. The algae began in Lake Okeechobee and is spreading after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers initiated...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is tasked with managing the Herbert Hoover Dike around Lake Okeechobee, and the water release schedule that is determined…

Last week, Gov. Rick Scott ordered a state of emergency for seven counties around Lake Okeechobee as a result of toxic algae blooms. Now the Army Corps...