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Securing a Safe, Just, and Climate-Ready Future for Florida
By Bianca Majumder, Cathleen Kelly, Salome Garcia, Yoca Arditi-Rocha, and Katrina Erwin
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Houses are seen along an eroded beach in Palm Coast, Florida, in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, September 2017.
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The effects of climate change and their inequitable distribution have become part of the daily fabric of life in Florida. Increasingly intense extreme heat threatens public health and air quality, and more powerful hurricanes threaten human life and infrastructure.
1 Recurrent flooding from sea level rise has become a widely known characteristic of the state, damaging homes, disrupting commutes, threatening water quality, and interfering with tourism.
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State lawmakers looking to form Utah Lake Authority to restore polluted waters
Sponsor says the bill has nothing to do with an artificial island city proposed for the lake thatâs still in the works.
(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Utah Lake is plagued with invasive species, a nutrient overload and toxic algal blooms, as seen in this file photo from 2019.
  | Feb. 15, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
A Utah lawmaker is considering legislation to create a new Utah Lake Authority that would have broad authority over the management, cleanup and future use of the stateâs largest freshwater lake.
Rep. Brady Brammer, R-Pleasant Grove, is sponsoring the legislation, which has not yet been numbered or made public. But a recent draft obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune shows it would create a 13-member Utah Lake Authority Board, with members appointed by the governor, Legislature, Utah County, the local Chamber of Commerce and numerous cities that border the lake. The lake autho
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Opponents of a plan to sell the Elliott State Forest hold signs outside an Oregon State Land Board meeting.
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Elliott State Forest is on the move. Not physically, of course, but it is changing managers and purpose.
The forest had not kept up with its original purpose to generate timber sale revenue for Oregon schools. So now it will become a research forest run by Oregon State University, which already runs experimental forests elsewhere in the state.
The Division of State Lands formalized the move this month. A rep from DSL joins us to map out the road ahead for the Elliott.