Florida Department of Environmental Protection

Mechanical harvesters will be used to collect invasive floating plants and the plants will then be processed and pumped to nearby hayfields to enhance soil.

The Department of Environmental Protection in November denied a permit that Trend Exploration sought to drill an exploratory well to seek oil reserves.

In the greater Tampa Bay region, mats are installed at four beaches: Treasure Island, Gulfport, St Petersburg - Spa Beach, and Indian Rocks Beach. Several others, like Clearwater, are making their way through the extensive permitting process.

He will hear arguments over whether a lawsuit should be tossed that alleges “malfeasance” after about 215 million gallons of wastewater were discharged from the site into Tampa Bay last year.

When Miami-Dade Marine Patrol Officer Nelson Silva discovered the young dolphin in Biscayne Bay, it was tangled in an illegal gill net from its tail to its nose.

Attorneys for DeSantis and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection say the lawsuit is moot since the state is already working to resolve the problems at the former phosphate plant.

The permit will allow up to 4 million gallons a day of wastewater from the Piney Point facility to be injected nearly 2,000 feet below the surface.

The retirements of the leaders of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Elder Affairs had not been previously announced.

Fried, a Democratic candidate for governor, wants to crack down on businesses that contribute to algae outbreaks.

Burnett Oil Co. has proposed drilling at two sites in the Everglades of Big Cypress National Preserve, an important Florida panther habitat that sprawls across both sides of Alligator Alley. Environmentalists hope the Biden administration takes a more skeptical view.

Sarasota, Pinellas and Hillsborough counties spilled more than nine million gallons of wastewater from sewage plants in 2020.

They intend to prevent the injection of hundreds of millions of gallons of polluted wastewater from the Piney Point phosphate plant into the underground aquifer.