Articles in Category: 'Friends of the Everglades'

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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CNN's Anderson Cooper, Hero; Environmental Out-of-Tune-ity Albert Slap, Zero

By: Nancy Smith | Posted: October 11, 2010 4:05 AM

This Week's Hero: Anderson Cooper

CNN’s Anderson Cooper may be half-celebrity-half-journalist, but last week he proved his better half is all newsman.

TAGS: Alan Grayson, Albert Slap, Anderson Cooper, CNN, Dan Webster, EPA, Everglades, Friends of the Everglades, Hurricane Katrina, News, SFWMD, South Florida Water Management District, The Florida Independent, Columns

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Articles in Category: 'Friends of the Everglades'

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