WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The U.S Environmental Protection Agency has turned a "blind eye" to Florida's Everglades cleanup efforts, while the state is violating its own commitment to restore the vast ecosystem, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
I always wondered how the EPA was going to be able to meet it`s own cleanup deadline. But I guess they never really knew either because they kept pushing it back. This is interesting maybe I can do the same thing with my taxes, paying my bills, or just about anything else. But what can they do anyway the real problem is agricultural runoff from the north that makes its way southward as it flows through the river of grass and other disruptions in the sheetflow. Even the buyout of Big Sugar wont cure everything and I dont think the other land owners will be as willing to sell out. The idea of filter marshes is a good one but it still is just a band aid on the real problem. And the new reservoirs being built seems like history repeating itself all over again. Take this quote "30 million tons of earth will be dug from flat land and surrounded by a 26-foot high, 21-mile long levee, making it larger than any other reservoir not connected to a natural source, according to state officials". To me that means 30 million tons of rock and soil thats going to be used for construction projects, which is one of the ways those involved stand to make a fortune. And with an area that large being obliterated or at least changed forever means loss of habitat for the wildlife already in peril.
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