The hardcore environmentalists at Everglades Earth First sure know how to push FPL's buttons. All year, they've been waging a court battle against construction of a new power plant in Palm Beach County (right across the street from a wildlife refuge!). Today, they picked another fight with the energy giant, suggesting that FPL is killing thousand-year-old cypress trees and trying to hide it. About 30 years ago, FPL bought the 455-acre Barley Barber swamp area -- a pristine swath of land ho
Courtrooms can be such staid places -- so we love it when people treat judicial proceedings as interactive theater events. This January, an environmental activist named Stevie Lowe went to the site of the Barley Barber Swamp, an ancient cypress forest, and locked herself to a tree. The reason? Florida Power & Light, which controls this land adjacent to its Martin County power plant, shut down access to the area after September 11, 2001, citing security concerns. Lowe and her friends from Eve
