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MANATEE DEATHS ON PACE TO SET ANOTHER RECORD | THUMB DOWN

From: TC Palm

“While advocates such as the nonprofit government watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility worry the figures prove manatees need more protection,…

LAKE'S ONLY PAIR OF MANATEES SURVIVE WINTER AS MANATEES DIE AT RECORD PACE

From: Orlando Sentinel

“The trademark Florida species is designated as endangered by the federal government. Jeff Ruch, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility executive director,…

EXTREME WINTER WEATHER BECOMING MORE COMMON AS ARCTIC WARMS, STUDY FINDS

From: The Guardian

“A sharp increase in temperatures across the Arctic since the early 1990s has coincided with an uptick in abnormally cold snaps in winter, particularly in the eastern…

ALARMING NUMBER OF MANATEES ARE DYING IN FLORIDA THIS YEAR

From: Herald Tribune

““Florida’s manatees are one big freeze away from an ecological disaster and need more, not less, protection,” PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch said in a statement.…

MORE MANATEES DIED FROM COLD STRESS THIS WINTER

From: Florida Today

“More than 150 manatees died in just the first seven weeks of 2018, putting Florida on pace to set an annual record for manatee deaths, according to the Public Employees…


News Releases

FEWER FLORIDA ECO-INSPECTIONS EQUALS LESS COMPLIANCE

Slight 2018 Election-Year Enforcement Uptick Yields Scant Results

FLORIDAS ECO-DELUSION DECONSTRUCTED

OFFICIAL CLAIMS OF NEAR UNIVERSAL POLLUTION COMPLIANCE FLATLY UNTRUE

TAMPA SEWAGE MELTDOWN EARLY ECO-TEST FOR DESANTIS

Federal Intervention Needed If State Continues to Ignore Major Pollution Violations

FLORIDA PANTHERS PAD TOWARD EXTINCTION

2018 Another High Lethality Year as Deaths Increasingly Outpace Declining Births

MANATEE DEATHS IN 2018 APPROACHING ALL-TIME RECORD

More Than One-Seventh of Population Perished as Red Tide Mortality Tripled