4/29/2003
Senate votes to weaken Everglades cleanup
The moderate Senate passes a bill to more moderately weaken Everglades cleanup and grant more moderate favors to Big Sugar. This is certain to pass in some form and it endangers more than a decade of Everglades cleanup efforts.
+Miami Herald -- Senate OKs softer bill on Glades
+St. Pete Times -- Even opponents oppose changes to Glades bill notes how the Senate compromise makes nobody happy. Environmentalists see it as a cynical fig-leaf. Big Sugar doesn't like it because it might cause them to maybe be held up to some kind of clean water standard sometime in the distant future.
+Palm Beach Post -- Fla. Senate votes to delay Everglades cleanup.
+Gainesville Sun -- The Florida Senate gambled with the future of the Everglades Monday, approving a bill that influential members of Congress have warned could jeopardize billions of dollars in federal funding.
+Tampa Trib -- Strenuous efforts by Gov. Jeb Bush and the Legislature to give a much-maligned Everglades bill the stamp of federal approval broke down Monday in a morass of mixed signals and false assertions.
+Sun Sentinel -- State Senate delays 'Glades cleanup; Congressman assails 'lousy' bill
+Miami Herald -- Senate OKs softer bill on Glades
+St. Pete Times -- Even opponents oppose changes to Glades bill notes how the Senate compromise makes nobody happy. Environmentalists see it as a cynical fig-leaf. Big Sugar doesn't like it because it might cause them to maybe be held up to some kind of clean water standard sometime in the distant future.
+Palm Beach Post -- Fla. Senate votes to delay Everglades cleanup.
+Gainesville Sun -- The Florida Senate gambled with the future of the Everglades Monday, approving a bill that influential members of Congress have warned could jeopardize billions of dollars in federal funding.
+Tampa Trib -- Strenuous efforts by Gov. Jeb Bush and the Legislature to give a much-maligned Everglades bill the stamp of federal approval broke down Monday in a morass of mixed signals and false assertions.
+Sun Sentinel -- State Senate delays 'Glades cleanup; Congressman assails 'lousy' bill
