Jenny Staletovich
Environment ReporterJenny Staletovich has been a journalist working in Florida for nearly 20 years.
She’s reported on some of the region’s major environment stories, including the 2018 devastating red tide and blue-green algae blooms, impacts from climate change and Everglades restoration, the nation’s largest water restoration project. She’s also written about disappearing rare forests, invasive pythons, diseased coral and a host of other critical issues around the state.
She covered the environment, climate change and hurricanes for the Miami Herald for five years and previously freelanced for the paper. She worked at the Palm Beach Post from 1989 to 2000, covering crime, government and general assignment stories.
She has won several state and national awards including the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for Distinguished Service to the First Amendment, the Green Eyeshades and the Sunshine State Awards.
Staletovich graduated from Smith College and lives in Miami, with her husband and their three children.
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NewsSpending on Everglades restoration will need to increase by a billion dollars to $7.4 billion over the next decade to keep work on track. That’s according to the latest work schedule now being drafted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and presented Thursday to a joint state and federal committee that helps oversee coordinating projects for the massive restoration effort. -
NewsThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking public comment on its latest Everglades Restoration project that aims to help fix worsening conditions in Biscayne Bay.
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NewsA parks committee has recommended Miami-Dade County approve a 40-year lease on land near Zoo Miami for a hotel, shops and a water park.
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NewsA Miami-Dade parks committee will review a proposal to lease land near Zoo Miami to developers hoping to build a hotel, shopping and water park. The land also provides habitat for the nation's rarest bat.
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NewsThe Center For Biological Diversity has asked a federal judge to reconsider its decision to not add the rare skink, found only in the Lower Keys and Dry Tortugas, to the Endangered Species List.
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NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission sent a team of inspectors to Turkey Point this week after Unit 3, the older of two reactors, was shut down three times in four days.
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NewsA recent fish kill and decades of warnings about worsening problems in Biscayne Bay prompted the Miami-Dade county commission to call for a restoration plan with tighter pollution limits overseen by new chief.
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NewsMiler and a fierce band of conservationists waged a relentless battle against development in the bay to found Biscayne National Park a half century ago.
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NewsCOVID-19 numbers and figures are supposed to give us a road map about how, when and if we can get back to a more normal life, but there’s so much we’re still learning. We set out to figure out which numbers we should be paying attention to and to understand how Florida is doing.
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Local NewsIn its first detailed review of the federal agency's plan, county staff said the proposal failed to fully consider South Florida's complex hydrology or incorporate the region's existing flood control network.
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Local NewsScientists examining this month's fish kill in Biscayne Bay say it follows decades of decline, but it still could have been prevented.
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NewsUniversity of Florida researchers say southern house mosquitoes spreading West Nile in South Florida have become more resistant to the chemicals being used to kill them.
