Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Florida's Fresh Water Crisis

Touted as an environmental breakthrough, the water policy bill passed last week by the Florida GOP Legislature is actually a major win for polluters and the politicians they own. The plan allows Big Ag operators to supervise their own waste releases, which is a fantasy come true for those who pollute. 

Sympathetic legislators went even farther, inserting in the law a “cost-share” provision that directs water-management districts to use tax dollars to subside Big Ag’s anti-pollution efforts.

In other words, the public will be paying farm corporations to do something they should pay for themselves 
— clean up their mess. here

Steve Crisafulli, whose dream of one day becoming state agriculture commissioner is closer to reality. The Brevard Republican has been an obedient little soldier for the special interests that divert and exploit the state’s fresh water supplies.


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/carl-hiaasen/article54951780.html#storylink=cpy


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/carl-hiaasen/article54951780.html#storylink=cpy


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/carl-hiaasen/article54951780.html#storylink=cpy


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/carl-hiaasen/article54951780.html#storylink=cpy

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