Environment – Page 7 – Florida Center for Investigative Reporting

Environmental Rules, Regulatory Agencies Undergo Big Changes

June 4, 2013

Ashley Lopez: Environmental regulations and the agency that implements them in Florida went through some big changes last week, and according to environmentalists, they aren't good changes.

Gulf of Mexico ‘Dead Zone’ May Be Larger Than Usual This Year

May 24, 2013

Paul Greenberg: Since the 1970s, an oxygen-deprived “dead zone” often bigger than the state of Connecticut has formed every summer in the Gulf of Mexico.

In Show of Big Sugar’s Influence, Price Supports Continued in Farm Bill

May 23, 2013

Trevor Aaronson: This year's farm bills in the U.S. House and Senate will cut back on many of the subsidies for the nation's agriculture industry. But the price supports that benefit the domestic sugar industry won't be affected, demonstrating just how powerful Big Sugar is on Capitol Hill.

For Orlando Postal Worker, Illness Still Mystery

May 20, 2013

Trevor Aaronson: The case of Jeffrey A. Lill, a U.S. Postal Service employee injured at a mail-sort facility in Orlando more than two years ago, is still unresolved.

Florida ‘Fracking’ Bills Moving Through Legislature

April 24, 2013

Ashley Lopez: Will the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing come to the Sunshine State?

EPA Cuts Pollution Deal With State Officials

March 21, 2013

Ashley Lopez: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection came to an agreement this week on new standards for water pollution in the state. The deal pleases the state's business community — but outrages environmentalists.