South Florida 100 - Sun Sentinel by Irela Bagué
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South Florida comes together to help save Biscayne Bay
A 63-inch sewer line broke June 20, sending waste into Miami-Dade County’s Biscayne Canal and Intracoastal Waterway. Although the “no contact with water” advisory for swimmers has since been lifted by the the water and sewer department, this incident is one of many disturbances impacting Biscayne Bay.
Members of the community, including FIU researchers, alumni and students, came together for the 2017 Biscayne Bay Marine Health Inaugural Summit. It was hosted June 28 at FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus in North Miami, Fla. Click here to read more. |
'Noah's Ark approach' and coastal flooding win GOP converts
 Photo by Lynne Sladky, courtesy of AP Images.
A massive behind-the-scenes effort, driven by the notion that rising sea levels will transcend party politics, led to the announcement earlier this year that a Democrat and a Republican had come together to form the first bipartisan House caucus on climate change.
The endeavor involved the advocacy of varied organizations, support from Florida mayors and business, a House Republican climate resolution, and many conversations with and among lawmakers. The effort will culminate, in a sense, in the first caucus meeting tomorrow where members will hear a presentation about carbon pricing. Click here to read more. |
Solutions For Rising Seas? MARSHA HALPER / MIAMI HERALD
Different groups have different predictions for how much the sea levels will rise in the coming century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts seas will rise by more than three feet by the end of this century, the United States Army Corps of Engineers says five feet and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts up to six and a half feet. So what do we do about it? The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce was hosting a discussion Friday about sea level rise. I spoke with Irela Bague, the Sustainability, Environment & Energy Committee chair for the chamber, about what they planned to talk about.
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Florida's climate change face-off
The Obama administration's Clean Power Plan that State Attorney General Pam Bondi said would "trample our state's rights" when she joined 23 other states last October to fight it has some new admirers: seven Florida cities.
On Friday, cities including Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Pinecrest, Cutler Bay and West Palm Beach, cut ranks and filed an amicus brief in federal court in Washington, D.C. supporting the plan to cut carbon by 2030. The plan is an attempt to head off some of the worst effects of climate change, which in Florida include increased flooding and more severe hurricanes. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court put the plan on hold while the federal appeals court sorts out some complicated, and critics say unprecedented, legal issues. Click here to read more. |
In My Opinion by Irela Bagué
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