Florida Department of Environmental Protection

One of the central questions and concerns is not knowing what causes the odors residents describe as rotten eggs and the impact of inhalation.

The water quality data are based on 37 years of environmental enforcement data, plus the latest comprehensive analysis of the state Department of Environmental Protection.

Google put in a proposal to the Environmental Protection Agency to release 32 million mosquitoes in Florida over two years. But it may not be as bad as it sounds.

Tourism collapsed in Southwest Florida in 2010 and more than 500 claims for economically related damages were paid in Charlotte, Lee and Collier counties alone, totaling $23.5 million.

North Florida's springs have suffered the consequences of residential and agricultural development for decades, environmental experts say. Recent conditions have prompted spring scientists and preservation groups to raise concerns over the state's water supply and quality.

As many as 50 private water wells in the Woodville area south of Tallahassee could have PFAS levels that exceed government standards. A nearby wastewater spray field could be the source.

The plan was part of an executive order issued in 2023 that set an ambitious timeline to build a coral pipeline to restore the ailing reef. Now labs are scrambling to shuffle funding or risk losing staff.

The deal reached between Tropical Audubon and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection dramatically scales back the project permit from 8,000 acres in cane fields to just over 2,000.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet approved the expenditure as part of $27 million to protect 21,500 acres of conservation and agricultural lands statewide.

Eddy Bouza is a certified flood plain manager, has studied nature-based resilience, and has directed the state's Resilient Florida Program.

"Some days you barely smell it, some days it about knocks you down."

A brief contends the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission — not the Department of Environmental Protection — is constitutionally responsible for wildlife-related issues.