House Bill 999 and its Senate counterpart, SB 1684, are the latest assaults on Florida’s environment by those who hold the most power and responsibility to protect it | Gainesville.com
First the Legislature gutted growth management, then it weakened our water management districts. Now it seeks to roll back protections on wetlands, allow for more pumping of our aquifer, make it harder for local governments to hold developers accountable, make it easier to pollute our waters and award 30-year, no-bid leases to Big Sugar for land critical to restoration of the Everglades.