Articles in Category: 'EPA'

Drinking Water: Florida Environmentalists' Cinderella
By: Nancy Smith | Posted: June 5, 2013 3:55 AM

Remember the increasing chunk of the budget environmentalists want to embed in the Constitution to buy conservation lands -- 33 percent of annual net revenues from the excise tax on documents from here to kingdom come? 

TAGS: American Infrastructure for 2013, ASCE, Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment, Environmental Protection Agency, environmentalists, EPA, Everglades restoration, land acquisition, News, The American Society of Civil Engineers, Columns
 
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EPA 'Adds' to the Protection of Florida Waters
By: Gwen Keyes Fleming | Posted: December 3, 2012 5:00 AM
Nutrient pollution, the excess nitrogen and phosphorus that causes algal blooms and fish kills, is a major source of water quality impairment across the state of Florida.
TAGS: Clean Water Act, CWA, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, FDEP, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida Wildlife Federation, News, Columns
 
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No Sunshine? Florida Connection to Obama Environmental Agency Secret Emails Controversy
By: Eric Giunta | Posted: November 20, 2012 3:55 AM
 
TAGS: Carol Browner, Christopher C. Horner, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, email aliases, Energy Czar, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Florida Department of Environmental Regulation, Fredric G. Levin College of Law, government transparency, Jim Messina, John B. Ellis, least transparent administration, Lisa P. Jackson, NARA, News, Obama Administration, of the National Archives and Records Administration, Paul Wester, Ralph Hall, Richard Windsor, secret email accounts, The Liberal War on Transparency, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, U.S. House Committee on Science Space and Technology, University of Florida, White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, Politics
 
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Obama’s Schizophrenic Everglades Election Strategy
By: Nancy Smith | Posted: July 17, 2012 3:55 AM
Obama surrogates swooped into Florida Friday to drop $80 million in federal subsidies for conservation easements north of Lake Okeechobee. That’s fancy talk for paying landowners to hold water.
TAGS: Adam Putnam, Alan Farago, Alan Gold, Barack Obama, Craig Pittman, Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, EPA, Everglades, Everglades Foundation, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Friends of the Everglades, Lake Okeechobee, Marco Rubio, News, numeric nutrient criteria, River of Grass, Tampa Bay Times, University of Florida, Columns
 
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Chamber, AIF Upbeat about Session's Outcome
By: Jim Turner | Posted: March 3, 2012 3:55 AM
 
TAGS: AIF, Associated Industries of Florida, Business, Citizens Property Insurance, DEP, Department of Environmental Protection, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Florida Catastrohic Fund, Florida Chamber of Commerce, James Grant, News, Rick Scott, Ron Saunders, sine die
 
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Who Would Be Impacted by Rising Energy Costs from New EPA Rules?
By: Steve Gates | Posted: February 24, 2012 3:55 AM
President Obama talked to students and other Floridians at the University of Miami on Thursday to reiterate a major item from his State of the Union address last month -- what he calls an “all-of-the-above” approach to energy.
TAGS: American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, coal, coal-fueled power, EPA, News, Obama, Steve Gates, Columns
 
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Bill Nelson, Democrats Support Florida, Oppose Obama's Water-Quality Mandate
By: Jim Turner and Nancy Smith | Posted: February 17, 2012 12:40 PM
 
TAGS: Adam Putnam, AIF, Associated Industries of Florida, Bill Nelson, Charlie Dean, DEP, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, FDEP, Florida Chamber of Commerce, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Lisa Jackson, Luis Garcia, Marco Rubio, Mark Hollis, Mark Wilson, News, numeric nutrient criteria, Obama, Pam Bondi, Rick Scott, Steve Southerland, Tom Feeney, Politics
 
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Finally, EPA Does the Right Thing for Florida
By: Nancy Smith | Posted: November 7, 2011 3:55 AM

Groups like Earthjustice and Sierra Club didn't like it, but last week the Environmental Protection Agency finally listened, did the right thing and approved a state alternative to the EPA's draconian water pollution regulations proposed for Florida.

TAGS: Clean Water Act, Conservancy of Southwest Florida, DEP, Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Department of Environmental Protection, EarthJustice, Environmental Confederation of Southwest Florida, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Florida Chamber of Commerce, Florida Wildlife Federation, Leticia Adams, News, PolitiFact, Sierra Club, St. John's Riverkeeper, St. Petersburg Times, University of Florida, Columns
 
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EPA Puts Out New Air Pollution Standards
By: Jim Saunders News Service of Florida | Posted: December 23, 2011 3:55 AM
TAGS: air pollution, Bill Johnson, Business, Cherie Jacobs, EPA, Everglades Foundation, Florida Power & Light, Gulf Power Co., Kirk Fordham, Lisa Jackson, News, Pam Bondi, Progress Energy Florida, Sandy Sims, Tampa Electric Co.
 
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Water Pollution Standards Near State Approval
By: Michael Peltier News Service of Florida | Posted: December 9, 2011 3:55 AM
TAGS: Adam Putnam, Business, Department of Environmental Protection, EPA, Florida Stormwater Association, Herschel Vinyard, John Buss, News, nutrients, water pollution
 
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Rick Perry Calls for Major Overhaul of Federal Government
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: November 16, 2011 3:55 AM
 

TAGS: Balanced Budget, Commerce Department, Congress, DHS, Education Department, Energy Department, EPA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Iowa, Lamar Alexander, News, Republicans, Rick Perry, Supreme Court of the United States, TSA, Politics
 
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LeMieux Pushing 'Four Freedoms'; Hasner Says Plan Lacks Imagination
By: Jim Turner | Posted: October 13, 2011 3:55 AM
 
TAGS: Adam Hasner, Brannon Jordan, Doug Mayer, drilling, EPA, Florida Democratic Party, Four Freedoms Plan, George LeMieux, News, Obamacare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics
 
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Taking Aim at Obama, Bachmann Releases Plan to Raise U.S. Employment
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: October 12, 2011 3:55 AM
 
TAGS: Barack Obama, Colombia, Dodd Frank Act, EPA, Free Trade, Health-Care, Herman Cain, Iowa, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, News, Panama, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, South Korea, Politics
 
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Somebody Tell Sierra Club: Money Doesn't Grow on Trees
By: Nancy Smith | Posted: October 3, 2011 3:55 AM
 

Few organizations have the guts to get in the face of the Sierra Club.

TAGS: Agriculture Department, EPA, Florida Agricultural Resource Economics Department, Free Market Florida, News, Office of Agricultural Water Policy, Richard J. Budell, Ryan Houck, Sierra Club, Columns
 
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GOP, Coal Industry Seek to Derail EPA with TRAIN Act
By: Kenric Ward | Posted: September 19, 2011 3:55 AM
 
TAGS: American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Bill Posey, Business, coal, EPA, jobs, National Economic Research Associates, News, Progress Energy Florida, regulation, Government
 
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Florida Officials: EPA is Putting State Through Water Torture
By: Kenric Ward | Posted: August 9, 2011 10:30 AM
 
TAGS: Business, Cliff Stearns, David Guest, David Richardson, EarthJustice, EPA, Florida Department of Agriculture, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida Water Environment Utility Council, Gainesville Regional Utilities, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Lawsuit, News, numeric nutrient criteria, Paul Steinbrecher, Paynes Prairie Sheetflow, Richard Budell, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, total daily maximum load, UCF, Politics, Government
 
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Weekly Roundup: Who Loves You, Baby?
By: Michael Peltier News Service of Florida | Posted: August 6, 2011 3:55 AM
 
TAGS: 11th Circuit of Court of Appeals, Agency for Health Care Administration, Allen Boyd, Amy Baker, Barack Obama, Bill Nelson, Bob Graham, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Citizens', Colleen Castille, debt ceiling, Department of Environmental Protection, Dr. Miguel Machado, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Florida Medical Association, George LeMieux, HMOs, Jeff Atwater, Kevin McCarty, Kurt Browning, Medicaid, Mike Haridopolos, Mike McCallister, Nancy Argenziano, New York Stock Exchange, News, Peter Brown, Q-Poll, Quinnipiac University, Rick Scott, sinkhole claims, Steve Southerland, U.S. Department of Justice, Water Standards, Politics
 
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State Water Rules Discussed
By: Michael Peltier News Service of Florida | Posted: August 4, 2011 3:55 AM
TAGS: 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Colleen Castille, David Guest, DEP, Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Justice, EarthJustice, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Regulatory Commission, environmentalists, EPA, News, numeric nutrient criteria, Politics
 
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PSC, EPA at Odds Over Fish Killed in Plant Cooling
By: Jim Saunders News Service of Florida | Posted: July 19, 2011 3:55 AM
TAGS: Crystal River, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Gulf Power Co., Jeff Rogers, Natural Resources Defense Council, News, Progress Energy Florida, PSC, Public Service Commission, Scott Sutton, Steve Fleischli, Politics
 
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