Jenny Staletovich
Jenny Staletovich has been a journalist working in Florida for nearly 20 years.
She’s reported on some of the region’s major environment stories, including the 2018 devastating red tide and blue-green algae blooms, impacts from climate change and Everglades restoration, the nation’s largest water restoration project. She’s also written about disappearing rare forests, invasive pythons, diseased coral and a host of other critical issues around the state.
She covered the environment, climate change and hurricanes for the Miami Herald for five years and previously freelanced for the paper. She worked at the Palm Beach Post from 1989 to 2000, covering crime, government and general assignment stories.
She has won several state and national awards including the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for Distinguished Service to the First Amendment, the Green Eyeshades and the Sunshine State Awards.
Staletovich graduated from Smith College and lives in Miami, with her husband and their three children.
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The rule, originally proposed in 2016 to expand net requirements to protect sea turtles, was rewritten by the Trump administration and stripped of requirements that would have protected twice as many turtles. -
Florida’s Sunshine laws often get held up as a model for a transparent government but public records requests can lead to bills in the tens of thousands of dollars. Some attorneys say it's time to waive public records fees in Florida for public interest groups.
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University of Florida researchers are mapping two of Florida's most destructive invasive plants, hoping to train computers to be able to detect and map it across thousands of miles.
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Local water managers and planners say the 70-year-old system needs to undergo a $6 million study to look at fixes to address sea rise.
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The bills would set new rules on gun laws, emergency orders and clean energy.
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The mussels have been found in popular moss balls, used in aquariums and as decoration, in 21 states so far. If you have one, officials say boil it or freeze it before disposing it in a trash container.
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Florida researchers hoping to save coral reefs have begun depositing groups of sea urchins at a Key Biscayne restoration site to see if they can help cure ailing reefs.
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The Sierra Club sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service after it quietly began reevaluating the status of the endangered deer and refused to make reports public.
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The maxing-out, bulging-at-the-seams, gridlock you feel on the highway — is happening underground, too. Infrastructure across the state isn't measuring up to Florida's growing population. And that's not only happening in Fort Lauderdale.
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Last month, reef organizations were told the $10 million was no longer available. But within weeks of WLRN inquiring, the grant money was reinstated.
