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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    EPA Wants to Know if Herschel Vinyard, Secretary of Florida's Department of Environmental Protection, Lied on his Resume

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether Herschel Vinyard, secretary of Florida's Department of Environmental Protection, fabricated part of his resume and has asked Vinyard's counsel to clarify various discrepancies surrounding his employment history.It seems ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Free Market Florida, Mad at EPA Investigation Into Herschel Vinyard, Says EPA Should Investigate Itself

    It didn't take long for the business community to come running to the defense of Herschel Vinyard.Free Market Florida, a self-described "unapologetic advocate for the principles of the free market," on Thursday issued a press release saying that the Environmental Protection Agency sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    George LeMieux Camp Says Maybe Connie Mack's Water Bill Is So Low Because He Drinks Tiger Blood

    While it's not clear if a Republican can beat Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in November, the fight for the Republican nomination has no shortage of interesting rhetorical maneuverings.The most recent spat between George LeMieux and Rep. Connie Mack started over a web ad the LeMieux campaign released t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Bill Koch and Oxbow Donate $1 Million to Romney Super PAC

    ​Six months ago, Bill Koch's spokesman told us the Palm Beach billionaire's political allegiances were "hard to pin down." Unlike Tea Party sugar daddies Charles and David Koch, "Wild Bill" was the Koch brother who supported more traditional Republican candidates and liked to fly under the radar. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    EPA Makes Toxic Releases In Broward Easier To Find Than Ever

    ​Copper in Coral Springs. Lead in Deerfield. Styrene in Dania Beach. These are just a few of the cases that turn up with a quick search of the Environmental Protection Agency's new Toxic Release Inventory database.The database, consisting of toxic disposals from 2010, allows users to search by zip ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    Zombie Honeybees Found in California

    ​It may sound like some truly bad straight-to-DVD movie, but Scientific American is reporting the discovery of zombie honeybees in Northern California, which may provide a clue in the search behind colony collapse disorder.A research article recently published in Plos One, a peer-reviewed science ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Three Plead Guilty in Scam Based on Government-Regulated Toilet Paper

    ​Question: How much money can three Palm Beach County scam artists make by convincing old people there are new government regulations that ban traditional toilet paper?Answer: Around $1 million, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.Mary Moore, 54, Joseph Nouerand, 52, and Christopher Lincoln, 4 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Gov. Scott Presents Plan for Everglades Restoration -- Meaning More Engineering

    ​The Everglades is too far gone for anyone to let it take its natural course. South Florida's entire inland economy depends on a water system that stays around the same level all year long, avoids flooding communities (cough, Weston, cough) that are stupidly built in the natural flow of water from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2011

    Someone May Have Taken a Dump in Sunrise's Water Supply

    hundredyearstorm.comThis is where poo-poo is supposed to go.​If your tap water has been tasting a little poopy lately, that's a problem.The Broward County Health Department sent out a drinking water warning yesterday, saying their water system "detected fecal indicators" in one of the wells in Sun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Food Mystery: Vanishing of the Bees

    Vanishing of the Bees - Trailer from Bee The Change on Vimeo. Honey, if you haven't heard about the disappearing bees, you are in for a shocker! Vanishing of the Bees is a film currently screening across the country (this Sunday in Palm Beach Gardens) about the massive disappearance of bees from hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Ann Coulter: Crazy Like a (Three-Eyed, Five-Legged) Fox

    ​Ann Coulter says crazy things. She does it all the time, and most of us are used to it. But there's crazy, see, and then there's Crazy -- the kind of blithely lethal insanity that'd make you scream and run if it weren't proffered by a pretty, grinning, blond lady on The O'Reilly Factor. And Ann's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Introducing George "Barely True" LeMieux

    For the past week, Sen. George LeMieux has been obsessed with skimmers. So obsessed that he's found one to match his salmon tie, as you can see above. Recently, Politifact.com busted out its bullshit detector and put LeMieux's claims to the test.

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Health Secretary Critiques Obama Before Oval Office Address

    Flickr: Pan-African News Wire​The blame game started about a second after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon opened a geyser of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, and it's too late to stop the game now. So we may as well try to at least separate fact from fiction, starting with the POTUS.With that in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Former CEO of Broward Health Now Managing Louisiana's Health Response to Spill

    Flickr: anslataadams​Maybe managing the massive, notoriously incestuous North Broward Hospital District wasn't enough of a challenge for Alan Levine. He left that post in December 2007 to become secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. In a little more than two years, he's ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Controversial Herbicide Atrazine Will be Used Through At Least September

    Flickr: Loz FlowersSugar Cane Atrazine = BFF?​Farmers equate saying goodbye to atrazine to depleting Floridian agriculture. But a growing number of scientists believe atrazine, an herbicide widely used to remove weeds and promote the growth of cash-crop sugar cane, may cause cancer and birth def ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    Top 10 Grossest Foods We Eat Everyday

    Walls and walls of yuck.​On Bizarre Foods, host Andrew Zimmern travels the world eating eyeballs, testicles, bugs, and rotted meat. But the show isn't just Fear Factor with a balder, plumper version of Joe Rogan. The program is supposed to illustrate the difference in foodways between us and other ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    EPA Investigates Link Between Cancer and Atrazine, the Chemical Behind the Cane

    Flickr: parhessiastesSugar Cane: Harmless plant or serious accomplice?​These years have not been kind to the proverbial Floridian wallet: If Madoff didn't take your money, then Rothstein probably did, and good luck selling that 4-bedroom for more than the price of a Lego pirate ship. Now, Florida' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    FPL Plant Deals Dirty on the Race Question, Activists Say

    FPL's Riviera plant: Looks great from a distance​Environmental activists and some Riviera Beach residents are fed up with living with "one of the dirtiest power plants in the entire state of Florida," according to a news release from the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition. The Coalition, a ... More >>

  • News

    January 7, 2010

    Chinese Drywall Has Left Tens of Thousands of Homeowners Out of Options

    FPL's Riviera plant: Looks great from a distance​Environmental activists and some Riviera Beach residents are fed up with living with "one of the dirtiest power plants in the entire state of Florida," according to a news release from the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition. The Coalition, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2009

    Sunday Reading: The Wayne Huizenga Story

    I just happened on this classic written by Steve Almond in 1994 about South Florida's hard-driven, complicated, and sometimes brutal mogul.  Uh, it jumps.   Citizen Wayne - The Unauthorized Biography A college dropout and the product of a broken home, H. Wayne Huizenga rose ... More >>

  • Dining

    August 14, 2008

    Kick the Bottle

    As the containers and costs mount, in South Florida and beyond, plastic is played out

  • Home Entertainment

    January 31, 2008

    Point and Chop

    No amount of sharpening can save this dull blade.

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    Sushi Advisory

    No amount of sharpening can save this dull blade.

  • Film

    August 2, 2007

    It Doesn't Suck!

    Breathe easy, Simpsons fans. The movie is eeeexcellent.

  • News

    November 23, 2006

    The One That Got Away

    While scandal rages in Hollywood, Whit Van Cott waits for his payday with a rod and reel.

  • News

    August 10, 2006

    Reef Madness

    Thanks to the Delray-Boynton pipe, there's a nitrate-stoked party down there.

  • News

    July 13, 2006

    The Dirt on Dania

    Something nasty was in an illegal dumpsite that a developer covered over. Just ask the neighbors.

  • News

    December 2, 2004

    Scripps Script

    When it comes to the huge biotech project, the Sentinel's editorial license should be revoked

  • News

    August 5, 2004

    Wild and Dirty

    Hemmed in, polluted, under police guard, the New River is still as untamed as it gets in Fort Lauderdale

  • News

    July 29, 2004

    River of Sludge

    Sure, Hollywood's sewage plan is dirty. It pollutes the Everglades too.

  • News

    May 27, 2004

    Sooo Thirsty

    Uncle Ken Wants You!

  • News

    January 8, 2004

    Enviro-hassles

    Yeah, Jeb's boys saved the Miami Blue. But since then, it's been open season on the environment.

  • News

    December 18, 2003

    Don't Drink the Water, Seriously

    Another health threat. Another cover-up. More incompetence. Welcome back to Pompano.

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    Poison Pill

    Florida's first law to protect farm workers from pesticides died a quiet death, but now it's back

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    Big Cypress Buyout

    Proposed payment of millions to a wealthy clan amounts to nothing more than stealing from taxpayers for the Bush boys' political gain

  • News

    February 14, 2002

    Look Back in Anthrax

    Magazine mogul David Pecker rates public agencies' response to the Boca debacle

  • News

    October 28, 1999

    This School May Cause Cancer

    The stalled reconstruction of Deerfield Middle School has littered the campus with a carcinogen. So why are students still there?

  • News

    April 15, 1999

    Toxic Justice

    Investigators caught Manuel E. Rojas and his company attempting to dump toxins in the Everglades. Sounds like a simple case to prosecute. It wasn't.

  • Music

    August 27, 1998

    Brian Wilson, Reconstructed

    Investigators caught Manuel E. Rojas and his company attempting to dump toxins in the Everglades. Sounds like a simple case to prosecute. It wasn't.

  • News

    June 4, 1998

    Letters

    Investigators caught Manuel E. Rojas and his company attempting to dump toxins in the Everglades. Sounds like a simple case to prosecute. It wasn't.

  • News

    May 14, 1998

    If at First You Don't Succeed, Get Hired by the City Again

    Consultants Hazen and Sawyer oversaw one the biggest utility failures in Fort Lauderdale history. So why does the city keep hiring them?

  • News

    April 16, 1998

    Adding Fuel to the Mire

    A million gallons of petroleum has leaked into the environment at Port Everglades. So what's being done about it? Nothing.

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    You Spray, You Pay

    A pilot program in Fort Lauderdale challenges the notion that the grass is always greener when treated with chemical pesticides

  • News

    December 25, 1997

    The Killing Fields

    For 24 years toxic soot from the Wingate dump rained down on Leola McCoy and her neighbors. She calls it environmental racism.

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