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Results 13More Devastation Ahead For Corals? Not on our Watch. Miami Waterkeeper Comments on Port Everglades EIS to the Corps
April 22, 2022
Between 2013 and 2015, the deep dredge construction project at PortMiami killed more than half a million corals and damaged over 250 acres of…
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Legal Actions
March 30, 2021
Protecting Florida’s Coral Reefs from the Impacts of Dredging In a race to expand U.S. ports to accommodate larger, next-generation shipping vessels, the U.S….
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Repeating History: Statement on Port Everglades
March 24, 2021
Expansion In partnership with Earthjustice, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Diving Equipment & Marketing Association, Miami Waterkeeper submitted comments to the U.S….
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March 2021 Port Everglades Status Report
March 12, 2021
The Port Everglades dredging project threatens vulnerable wildlife and habitats. Miami Waterkeeper, in conjunction with the Center for Biological Diversity, Florida Wildlife Federation, and…
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Port Everglades Expansion Status Report
September 15, 2020
Miami Waterkeeper (in coalition with the Center for Biological Diversity, Florida Wildlife Federation, Inc., and Diving Equipment and Marketing Association) has advocated against the…
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Army Corps finds No Significant Impact in PortMiami Channel Maintenance Dredging. We Disagree.
December 4, 2019
Earlier this summer, the Army Corps of Engineers announced they would be undertaking some routine maintenance dredging in the PortMiami shipping channel. This maintenance…
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Port Everglades Dredging Project Construction Delayed until April 2021
November 25, 2019
On October 1, 2019, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced that construction for the Port Everglades Dredging Project Construction will now…
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Dredging Déjà vu
November 27, 2018
Miami’s reefs are in dire need of protection from being dredged again – AGAIN! Yes, that’s right, we’re as shocked as you are. We…
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Victory Alert: PortMiami Legal Settlement
August 6, 2018
Lawsuit over Dredging Achieves Restoration of 10,000 threatened corals Celebrate our legal victory with us! …
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