Everglades
Everglades Restoration Roundtable
On July 1st, Congress will receive a proposal from the Army Corps of Engineers on 7.8 billion dollars worth of projects to restore the Florida Everglades. Steve Curwood discusses the controversial plan with Michael Davis, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, in the Civil Works division, and Ron Tipton, Director of U.S. Ecoregion Conservation for […]
The Miccosukee Challenge
The billion dollar plan to restore the Everglades is about to meet a challenge. The 400-member Miccosukee Indian tribe, native to the region, is frustrated with the pace of the cleanup effort, and will soon insist that water entering its reservation be cleaner than the state now requires. The tribe’s mandate is years ahead of […]
HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE
Local politicians favor the development of a new airport for Miami. The site they’ve chosen for the billion dollar project is the shuttered Homestead Air Force Base in south Dade County – – an area devestated by Hurricane Andrew five years ago and in dire need of an economic boost. There’s a hitch though. The […]
River of Grass: Florida’s Environmental Voters
This year the Everglades is at the center of Florida’s politics with a rhetorical battle over an anticipated Everglades clean-up by sugar companies. President Clinton’s commitment to tax sugar producers for this effort seems to have the popular edge over Bob Dole’s stance of citizen taxation. Sandy Tolan reports on Florida’s expected sweet vote for […]