Category: Environment
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Top Everglades restoration scientist Van Lent ordered to jail for indirect criminal contempt
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
One of the nation’s preeminent scientists involved in Everglades restoration was ordered to jail Thursday by a Miami-Dade circuit judge who found him guilty of indirect criminal contempt of court in May. -
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Everglades Foundation prosecutes former top scientist for criminal contempt in case that’s roiling Florida environmentalists
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
If Marjory Stoneman Douglas had a grave, she’d be rolling in it. The pioneering environmentalist and famed “Mother of the Everglades,” whose ashes were famously scattered across Everglades National Park wilderness upon her death in 1998 at age 108, could hardly have imagined two of the Everglades’ leading champions on opposite sides in a Miami court of law. -
Is the Florida Supreme Court building ‘sick’? Staffers reveal troubling symptoms, but no health regulators are watching
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The Greek Revival facade of the Florida Supreme Court on Duval Street in downtown Tallahassee may conceal a less elegant secret: It’s possible the building is what toxicologists call “sick.” -
Everglades Foundation settles suit against scientist who said group has ‘lost its way,’ shown ‘fealty’ to DeSantis, Republicans
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
UPDATE: Sept 1 – The Everglades Foundation has settled its lawsuit accusing its former lead scientist Thomas Van Lent of stealing or destroying numerous undisclosed trade secrets when he quit in February, according to court documents filed Thursday. -
Everglades Foundation’s politically fraught lawsuit against its former top scientist unsealed in Miami
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A Miami-Dade Circuit judge Monday unsealed a 19-page complaint and other records filed by the Everglades Foundation in early April in a politically charged lawsuit against its former top scientist. -
Biden moves to slow use of trains to haul hazardous LNG, but Trump’s permits let LNG ‘bomb trains’ roll on FEC tracks
By Ann Henson-Feltgen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Biden administration has proposed a rule that would temporarily halt the transportation of liquified natural gas (LNG) by rail – except in three states, including Florida, where those “bomb trains” regularly haul the highly flammable material through heavily populated neighborhoods along the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) tracks.
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