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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave Florida control of wetlands permitting in December. Now environmental groups want a federal judge to throw out the decision.
Seven environmental groups asked a judge Thursday to throw out the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to give the state control of wetlands permitting.
The environmental groups say Florida s application was riddled with errors and the EPA violated the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act and the Administrative Procedures Act when it handed Florida control of wetlands permitting last month.
“There are such unreasonable things in the way EPA has acted in this case that I d be surprised if any other EPA looking at it would have reached the same conclusion,” said Tania Galloni, managing attorney for Earthjustice’s Florida Office.
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PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENT TO ISSUE AIR PERMIT
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Division of Air Resource Management, Office of Permitting and Compliance
Draft Air Permit No. 1230001-097-AC
Foley Cellulose LLC, Foley Mill
Taylor County, Florida
Applicant: The applicant for this project is Foley Cellulose LLC. The applicant’s authorized representative and mailing address is: Thomas Kicklighter, V.P. and General Manager, Foley Cellulose LLC, Foley Mill, One Buckeye Drive, Perry, Florida, 32348.
Facility Location: Foley Cellulose LLC operates the existing Foley Mill, which is in Taylor County at One Buckeye Drive in Perry, Florida.
Project: The Foley Mill is an existing softwood Kraft Process Pulp Mill that manufactures bleached market pulps and dissolving cellulose pulps consisting of the following major activities: two Kraft pulp mills, chemical recovery, causticizing, purification (i.e. bleaching), papermaking, woodyard, and utility operations.
Earthjustice said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to follow the rule-making process for transferring permitting authority used in Michigan and New Jersey.
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(Hillsborough County Government )
PINELLAS COUNTY, FL Pinellas County residents 65 and older should soon be able to start pre-registering for a second round of COVID-19 vaccines sent by the State of Florida, health officials said at Tuesday s Board of County Commissioners meeting.
Approximately 10,000 vaccines will be available for first dose starting next week, Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County Director Dr. Ulyee Choe said.
The state-run health department is also partnering with Pinellas County in a contract with a new company to operate an online and phone registration system that s also being used by Pasco, Hillsborough, Orange and other Florida counties.