Category News: Media Coverage
Results 561Miami-Dade commissioners approve spending $1.6 billion to fix water, sewer pipes
January 1, 2014
Patrica Mazzei for the Miami Herald writes: Miami-Dade commissioners swallowed hard medicine Tuesday, approving an agreement with the federal and state governments to settle…
READ MORE
PortMiami dredge damages more coral than feds expected
January 1, 2014
[embedlycard url=”http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article31350266.html”] “The Corps has been dragging their feet and not providing the information,” said Rachel Silverstein, a marine biologist and executive director of…
READ MORE
Miami cuts Virginia Key mangroves to make way for boat show
January 1, 2014
[embedlycard url=”http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article25605991.html”] “Mangroves have long been protected because they provide a critical barrier between land and water: their tangled roots help trap sediment and…
READ MORE
How Miami Power Women Are Relaxing This Summer
January 1, 2014
Ocean Drive Magazine writes: “I love the sunshine and the water, and we get plenty of both living in Miami. I run a nonprofit…
READ MORE
Miami Questions: Can I pee in the ocean?
January 1, 2014
Bruce Pinchbeck for The New Tropic writes: While we at The New Tropic care a whole lot about Miami and about the serious things…
READ MORE
Biscayne Bay coral at risk from sloppy dredge work
January 1, 2014
Jenny Staletovich for the Miami Herald writes: Despite promises to a federal judge in October to clean up dredging at Government Cut, federal managers…
READ MORE
Q&A: Rachel Silverstein on the Threats to Our Waters
January 1, 2014
Ocean Drive Magazine writes: Coming off successful legal action protecting our clean-water economy, Rachel Silverstein and the upstart environmental group Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper look…
READ MORE
Feds say ‘nurseries’ could save Government Cut coral
January 1, 2014
Jenny Staletovich of the Miami Herald writes: To stop the “rapid” destruction of rare coral caused by the dredging of Government Cut, federal wildlife…
READ MORE
Environmentalists ready to sue over Miami port’s deep dredge
January 1, 2014
Zachary Fagenson of Reuters writes: Environmentalists said on Thursday they are prepared to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after researchers found dredging to…
READ MORE