From: Miami Herald “Most of the suspected or confirmed Red Tide victims were found dead in Charlotte, Lee and Collier counties, but one recently turned up floating in Terra Ceia Bay in Manatee County. “We find that the primary route is through ingestion of seagrass that has the toxins ...

EPA Classifies the Vast Majority of Our Marine Waters “Impaired” by Pollution ...

From: SF Weekly “Earlier this year, the EPA determined that as much as 97 percent of the data produced by Tetra Tech, the Navy contractor spearheading the former shipyard’s toxic cleanup for more than a decade, may have been falsified or manipulated. In May, two former Tetra Tech ...

From: Florida Sportsman “Scott began to dismantle the programs, standards and agencies whose purpose was to monitor and improve Florida’s water quality in its watersheds, rivers and Lake O, all of which flow into our oceans. Since 2011, when Scott got into office, the critical measures ...

From: Tampa Bay Times “Numbers like these also have to be taken into context with the possibly increasing size of the manatee population and local abundance variations from year to year,” she explained. “If more manatees hang out in more urban areas, one can assume that more ...