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An airboat trail through marshes in the water conservation area west of Miami-Dade County.
Everglades advocates meeting virtually this week want President Joe Biden to nearly quadruple federal spending on restoring marshes to keep a surge in progress on track.
In a January letter, 61 environmental groups represented by the Everglades Coalition asked the president to increase spending to $2.9 billion over the next four years. That comes to $725 million a year, about equal to estimates by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to keep restoration efforts on schedule for the next decade.
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By refusing to hear an appeal of a decision by a Florida appellate court, the US Supreme Court effectively sided with a developer who won a multi-million judgment against someone who.