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Delray Beach gives planning board member one last chance to retract water-quality comments

by Elizabeth Duan | November 19, 2020
“City Commissioners agreed Tuesday to take the unprecedented action of removing Planning and Zoning Board member Rob Long next month if he refuses to retract statements concerning Delray Beach‘s water quality. At issue was a column Long wrote about a recent news release issued ...

Trump appoints adviser to Chemical Safety Board

by Elizabeth Duan | November 18, 2020
“President Trump quietly appointed a new senior adviser to the federal agency responsible for investigating industrial chemical accidents — a surprise move late in the president’s lame-duck term. “This looks like an effort by the Trump administration to get someone &# ...

Environmental group says there are ‘alarming’ levels of chemicals in Delray Beach water

“An environmental watchdog group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or “PEER,” reports that there is an alarming level of “forever chemicals” found in Delray Beach’s drinking water. The report, published in October, is based on ...

Orlando’s secret life of sewers: What workers hope you never know

“Florida has hundreds of private and public sewers. They are vital for protecting human health. They can be an asset or a villain in the struggle to heal sickly rivers and coastal waters. Sewage challenges will amplify with population growth and as rising sea levels drown sewers of ...

Letter to the Editor: More lessons from the pandemic

“The Nov. 15 editorial “To catch a killer” ​was spot on as far as the world’s need to learn from the current pandemic to prevent the next one. It identified several concrete steps but omitted one. ​A​ travesty​ occurred​ in ​April​ when President Trump, based ...

Trump Names Ex-Northrop Exec as Chemical Safety Board Adviser

“President Donald Trump‘s late-in-term appointment of a former Northrop Grumman Corp. vice president as an adviser to the federal chemical safety board has raised eyebrows in the worker advocacy community. As the Trump administration winds down, there is also the question of Lemos ...