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The Biden administration recently announced $1.1 billion to fund Everglades restoration projects, the largest single injection of money into the effort to restore the vast South Florida web of swamp, marsh and forest. But the plan did not include funds for a huge reservoir in western Palm Beach County that’s intended to reduce polluted discharges to the ocean and send clean water south through the Everglades.

The Biden administration recently announced $1.1 billion to fund Everglades restoration projects, the largest single injection of money into the effort to restore the vast South Florida web of swamp, marsh and forest. But the plan did not include funds for a huge reservoir in western Palm Beach County that’s intended to reduce polluted discharges to the ocean and send clean water south through the Everglades.

The money will be used to hasten efforts to undo the damage the Everglades suffered in the early 1900s.

The Everglades will receive what the White House calls the single largest investment in its history. The Biden Administration announced yesterday that the US Ar

Environmental groups working to restore the Florida Everglades were elated to learn Wednesday that $1.1 billion from the federal infrastructure package has been earmarked to help pay for the massive, multi-decade restoration. The money will be used to hasten the efforts to undo the extensive environmental damage the Everglades suffered in the early 1900s, when the Army Corps built canals, locks and levees in a massive water management and flood control plan before the damaging environmental impacts of such efforts were fully known. Improving water quality and quantity is the Everglades is a to...