Efforts to ban Burmese python sales gets bogged down
MIAMI ��� When Burmese pythons began slithering across Everglades levees in increasingly alarming numbers, state water managers petitioned the federal government to crack down on the pet trades sale of the giant snakes��.
Florida officials needled over climate change controversy
FEMAs State Mitigation Plan ��� which will go into effect in 2016 ��� and the Environmental Protection Agencys national Clean Power Plan are part of the Obama administrations efforts to combat the effects of climate change. On Tuesday, Castor grilled.
Staying afloat amid climate change
The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Action Plan, including Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties, has laid out recommendations for how to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change. In addition, Miami-Dade has its own climate .
South Florida at forefront of climate planning, top US scientist says
This year, the conference coincides with a renewed push to address climate change. Activists descended on Manhattan last week for a march that preceded a United Nations summit where President Barack Obama singled out South Florida as one of the .
In Florida, Officials Ban Term Climate Change | via Popist
In Florida it will be hard to plan for climate change, he said, if officials cant talk about climate change.. Original by miamiherald.com. TAGS: Dep, Climate, Change, Scott, Florida, Byrd, Miami, Harper, State, Vinyard. y on the front lines of studying and planning for these changes. DEP officials have been ordered not to use the term climate change or global warming in any... But evidence the issue has fallen out of favor during the Scott administration is apparent.
PITTS COLUMN: GOP cant gag truth
Mind you, they can ask about swimming pools, tobacco, seat belts, lead paint and other potential home-based threats to childrens health. But not. In Florida, you may not say ���climate change.��� Now, youd think. But Scotts words are simply not.
Gov. Rick Scott Banned Talk of Global Warming and.
The Miami Herald reported yesterday that though ���Sea-level rise alone threatens 30 percent of the states beaches over the next 85 years,��� the Florida Department of Environmental Protection ���have been ordered not to use the term ���climate change��� or ���global. Even more bizarrely, President Obama, who says climate change is the greatest threat facing us, gets labeled as a science denier by the man who put stupid back into the Republican Party, Bobby Jindal.
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Retin A Treatment, The napkin is my witness: Notes from my Dec. 20 conversation about climate change with reporter Jim DeFede. Reporter Jim DeFede and I were office buddies at Miami New Times back in the mid-90s.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Revisiting Selma 50 years later
Nor the second time they tried, when Martin Luther King led marchers from all over the country out onto that bridge, prayed, and then led them back into town, an event that came to be known as ���Turnaround Tuesday.��� Nor the third time when, under.
Python Ban: About 30 Years Too Late | Florida Center for.
Bill Nelson, and others, there is a large and growing understanding of the real and immediate threat that the Burmese python and other invasive snakes pose to the Everglades and other ecosystems in the United States,��� Salazar said.. The first commenter on The Miami Herald story about the announcement expressed it succinctly and eloquently: ���You are about thirty years too late.���. Under this law you CANT EVEN TAKE THEM OUT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA!
As Jeb Bush woos conservatives, most cheer, some walk out
���I cant do another Bush in the White House,��� said Jenn Feagley, a psychology major at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania who was born half a decade after Bushs father left office. ���How do we make the argument that we dont need a Clinton dynasty .
Everglades To Be Killed This October by Floridas Own Koch.
You not only support their hedonistic lifestyle (such as Casa De Campo, their 7000 acre multimillion resort), horrible labor practices, and right-wing politics: you support the killing of our Everglades National Park. I am not being hyperbolic... If someone else can always buy their pols, and they cant count on the government to follow the laws, they have absolutely no predictability in how their investment will fair in such a lawless, chaotic, environment. In those instances��.
Jeb Bushs private investments in fracking dovetail with public advocacy
President Barack Obama in 2014 suggested natural gas, ���if extracted safely, its the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change.��� A Pew Research Center poll in May found 41 percent of Americans.
In Florida, officials ban term climate change
Kristina Trotta, another former DEP employee who worked in Miami, said her supervisor told her not to use the terms ���climate change��� and ���global warming��� in a 2014 staff meeting. ���We were told that we were not allowed to discuss anything that was not a.
Obama in Everglades: Threats from climate change cant be edited out of.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday paid his first visit to the Everglades, delivering an Earth Day speech linking the threat rising seas pose to the imperiled River of Grass and South Floridas drinking water to wider climate change risks across the.
Governor Scott says Florida did not ban the phrase climate.
The Miami Herald published a story Sunday that Gov.. The day after the Miami Herald article was published, State Democrats emailed a fundraising pitch to supporters Monday noting Scotts climate-change position.. Air Council, for research, reports, press releases and other activities that support and promote federal programs and agendas on air quality, climate change, climate impacts on wildlife, and many similar topics related to the Obama war on fossil fuels.
Women In Power: Carol Browner Speaks for First Time.
She started out working as a society columnist at the Miami Herald because thats what women could do back then. But she went on to write a very profound book called The Everglades: River of Grass. I first met her when I��.
A Bush tradition in Coral Gables: fast golf
���This is my normal day off,��� an unshaven Bush said during a brief post-golf interview with the Miami Herald as he loaded his golf bag into his Audi in the Biltmore parking lot. People familiar with his game said hes there most Sundays, and Bush said.
EYE ON MIAMI: MIAMI WILDS: Stupid Theme Park. Guest.
I somehow just cant see a restaurant or hotel providing up-close (and very smoky) views of the pinelands when they undergo required controlled burns.. 98% of this habitat has been wiped off the face of the earth.. One argument that has not been mentioned against a theme park with outdoor vulnerable infrastructure are hurricane threats.. President Obama to visit Everglades on Wednesday, linking hopes for the River of Grass with climate change adaptation.
MIAMI: Marco Rubio starts presidential run | National Politics.
pmazzei@MiamiHerald.comApril 13, 2015. Obama to visit Everglades, highlight climate change threat 2 minutes ago. MIAMI ��� Marco Rubio stood Monday at the grand hall of Miamis Freedom Tower, the place where Cuban immigrants were first welcomed into the United States, and declared himself the heir to their legacy as the newest candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.. ���We cant do that by going back to the leaders and ideas of the past,��� he said.
Lawmaker: Protect coal plants to help the manatees
Its a fact that congressional Republicans are seizing on to challenge the centerpiece of President Barack Obamas agenda to fight climate change, a plan to slash carbon emissions that could force large-scale closures of coal plants.. Bonde said.
The phenomenon that can not be spoken in Florida.
If the saline waterfront moves far enough north, it could contaminate the headwaters of the Biscayne Aquifer and southern Miami-Dade Countys water supply Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007; Heimlich et al.,... Imagine that all the military intelligence, all the science, all the commerce and manufacturing we have built over the last two hundred years needs to be relocated, salvaged, cant give us an answer as to how we deal with this threat to our��.
New plan calls for Miami-Dade mayor to take reins on sea rise
The measures will serve as ���marching orders��� to increase the countys response to sea rise, County Commissioner Rebeca Sosa said during a meeting with Miami Herald editors last week. She sponsored the legislation carrying out the task force .
Archbishop Thomas Wenski: Tea Party conservative and.
All day, the stocky Mexican with a buzzcut has led a thousand Latino tomato pickers on the 11-mile march from Plant City to Lakeland to protest the stingy pay of $50 per two tons of fruit torn off the vine. When he looks at the... Sterilization is evil, he told the Miami Herald. It is a. This complacency contributed to the climate that led Notre Dames president to think that it would be no big deal to defy the bishops in granting this honorary degree to President Obama..
Leonard Pitts: Republican list of things you cannot say.
But Scotts words are simply not credible in the wake of a withering report published last week by the Miami Herald.. ���We were told not to use the terms climate change, global warming or sustainability,��� said former DEP attorney Christopher Byrd. No, the GOP is. Yes, the Obama administration has lately come out against language conflating Islam and terrorism in order, it says, to deny gangs of criminal thugs the legitimacy of religious underpinnings. You may��.
Carl Hiaasen: Big Sugar weasels out of land deal
You cant be both, though some politicians try to pretend. Check out Steve Crisafulli,. As House speaker, he can guide funds for the acquisition of key land near Lake Okeechobee to be used for cleaning the polluted farm runoff and sending it south.
Animal advocates march on Miami for the release of orca Lolita
In an interview with the Miami Herald earlier this week, Robert Rose, curator of animals at the Seaquarium, cited a well-known case of an orca dying a short time after being released into the wild. Keiko, who gained international fame with his role in.
EYE ON MIAMI: The MDX: Driving Miami into the abyss of.
In other words, a massive highway project to bail out powerful land speculators whose investments are gathering dust because there is zero demand for the suburban sprawl they helped scatter throughout Miami-Dade County. Ramon Rasco, Sergio Pino,. This highway would attract development of agricultural and wild lands buffering the Everglades and pose a direct threat to the $12 billion federal-state Everglades restoration project. What this project would also��.
Sunburn ��� The morning read of whats hot in Florida politics ��� April 22
Thats because the Obama administration is transitioning to a system that uses taxpayer money to help individuals buy health insurance instead of reimbursing hospitals for caring for them. The fight has.. Miami Herald, Litigation isnt leadership.
Jeb Bush exploits non-candidate status to rewrite campaign finance playbook
Theres no worry the Super PAC would go off message, which has been the concern of some past committees backing candidates. Until Bush becomes an official candidate, advisers working for his two committees can coordinate all they want, building the .
Obamas climate change plan and the sound of two, wet.
Earlier this year, U.S. government scientists singled out Florida, Louisiana, and North Carolina, each with at least a thousand square kilometers of dry land less than 1 meter above high tide, as uniquely vulnerable to rising seas.. While the Miami Herald reported last year that ���South Florida took the threat seriously before most everybody else,��� the magnitudes of the climate threat and the costs associated with mitigation, adaptation, and resiliency make the risks��.
Riders On the Storm: A Path to Victory for Rick Santorum?
But that might be changing. The poll showed Santorum taking 22 percent of born-again Christians, moving him into first place among that group. And if he can make other born-agains believe that hes the one viable.. Obama arrives at Everglades National Park, plans to highlight climate change threat (miamiherald) - miamiherald: *Obama arrives at Everglades National Park, plans to highlight climate change threat* ��� President Barack Obama arrived at Everglades��.