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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited the Piney Point facility Tuesday and announced he has directed the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to develop a full plan to permanently close and rehabilitate the Piney Point, a project that could cost upwards of $200 million. We want this to be the last chapter of the Piney Point story, DeSantis said. This will ensure the state is moving forward with a thoughtful, scientific plan toward closure to avoid another chapter in this long history.
To fund those efforts, DeSantis also announced that $15.4 million of existing DEP appropriations will be used in the short-term to pay for innovative technologies to pretreat wastewater at the site for nutrients to minimize any adverse environmental impacts of any future discharges, if they are necessary. Florida Senate President Wilton Simpson said that the legislature is also pushing forward plans to appropriate $100 million this year to the DEP s effo
Florida s environmental commission hasn t met in 4 years
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EPA’s Approval of Developer-backed Scheme to Turn Permitting Over to State Violates U.S. Environmental Laws WASHINGTON Earthjustice filed suit today to stop an attempt by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to allow Florida to fast-track wetlands permits for construction projects that will degrade and ruin Florida’s natural landscape, all in violation of federal environmental laws. While a worldwide pandemic is threatening lives and livelihoods across the United States, the EPA is green-lighting Florida’s proposal to take over the federal program that issues permits when developers and others want to fill sensitive marshes, cypress forests, ponds and other wetlands under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. In EPA’s rush to push this through, the agency skirted procedural requirements failing even to make the state program legally effective.