A Florida fishing guide credits Governor DeSantis with prioritizing clean water initiatives and securing funding for Everglades restoration. The guide opposes a proposed rock mine near the EAA ...

The permit for a rock mining project in sugarcane fields near a significant Everglades restoration project is being dramatically scaled back under a settlement announced Thursday. Under the permit, ...

A plan by the influential Fanjul brothers to convert sugarcane fields in the Florida wetlands into a rock mine has angered fellow elites.

Environmentalists have blasted state officials about the mine since the South Florida Water Management District described the project as a potential benefit to Everglades restoration. TALLAHASSEE, ...

The Everglades Law Center has filed a lawsuit over Big Sugar's proposed 34-year rock mining operation adjacent to the Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir designed to curb Lake Okeechobee discharges ...

A permit to allow the first phase of constrution on the massive Southland rock mine in Palm Beach County’s Everglades Agricultural Area has cleared a key legal hurdle. A settlement signed Feb. 18 by ...

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South Florida Water Management District approves request to delay information for rock mine. The Southland Water Resource Project, a mining operation, is being proposed by U.S. Sugar Corp. and ...

I’m not a politician. I’m not an activist. I’m someone who’s built a life on clean water. Like a lot of people in Southwest Florida, I remember the years when red tide and blue-green algae were ...

The Everglades Law Center filed a legal challenge over the Big Sugar rock mine. The environmental nonprofit filed suit on behalf of the Tropical Audubon Society. They hope to stop DEP from permitting ...