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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NewsHeavy rains that lingered weeks after the official end of the wet season left farmers struggling with flooded fields and meager crops. -
NewsA study published last month by University of Florida researchers blaming sun spots for higher king tides means scientists may be able to forecast and plan for worse floods.
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NewsWhile the rain and wind have gradually wound down, there's still a threat of rain and flooding.
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NewsHeavy rain from the storm means the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may only be able to release water to the west. The Corps is also wrestling with saturated ground around South Florida and a conservation area in Miami-Dade and Broward counties about a foot too high.
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NewsIn a report filed with a Washgington, D.C. federal judge, government attorneys said 62 ballots were among the thousands of pieces of mail. All but one have been delivered, they said.
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NewsUniversity of Florida scientists looked at more than 20 years of data and found nesting among egrets dropped in dry years when mercury was high. When they looked closer, they found mercury was hampering breeding .
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NewsA judge has given the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers a year to assess the damage caused to sea turtles, manatees and other protected species by dirty water released from Lake Okeechobee.
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NewsThe state has been looking into assuming control of the federal wetlands permitting program off and on since 1992. Wednesday, the EPA held the first of two public hearings on the state application submitted in August.
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NewsCommissioners approved the Miami Wilds park plan and an option for a larger hotel after vowing to protect bats and remove pineland from the deal.
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NewsFlorida has applied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to have control over permitting in the wetlands. Only two other states, New Jersey and Michigan, do their own permitting.
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NewsThe program needed four county staff members to meet to review applications for the trust. But for four years, they couldn't manage to organize a meeting, delaying an application now at the center of the Miami Wilds project.
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NewsEnvironmentalists had asked to hold off advancing negotiations until the county provided more details on the what operations would look like.
