Gov. DeSantis announces $300M for resilience projects; report finds unsafe fecal bacteria levels on Florida beaches
The money funds 71 new projects and three previously awarded projects to help prepare communities for flooding and storm surge.
Nathan Crabbe is editor of The Invading Sea. He previously worked for The Gainesville Sun newspaper from 2005 to 2022. He served for most of that time as the paper’s opinion and engagement editor. He also covered the University of Florida and environmental beats as a reporter.
Before that, he investigated wrongful convictions for the Innocence Institute of Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and covered the environmental and county beats as a reporter for the Napa Valley Register in Napa, California.
The money funds 71 new projects and three previously awarded projects to help prepare communities for flooding and storm surge.
The Florida Municipal Power Agency plans to add six solar farms that will supply power to 20 municipal utilities throughout...
The funding, totaling about $377 million, included hundreds of millions of dollars for energy-efficiency rebates and electrification.
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Toxic algal blooms now regularly infest much of the lake's 730-square-mile surface during the summer.
About 70% of the eagle pairs that lost nests rebuilt in the same season, according to EagleWatch data.
The new forecast now predicts 18 named storms and nine hurricanes, four of which will be major.
The heat waves could linger through the end of the year.
The average payment is $91,000 to Florida households and $49,000 in Kentucky, an E&E News analysis found.
Hillsborough will be too hot to grow strawberries by 2050, according to a report from the Environmental Defense Fund.
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