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.
Contact Jenny at jstaletovich@wlrnnews.org
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The committee, made up of four Miami-Dade County commissioners, voted Tuesday to defer a new Seaquarium lease with developer David Martin, endangering a December deadline set by creditors to close the deal. -
The latest report from Save the Manatee Club echoed state wildlife managers who called for a smaller marina to protect manatees.
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At the annual meeting of South Florida governments' regional climate compact, officials warned Amendment 3 could stall flood control work. -
At stake tonight was a four-year term as Florida’s chief legal officer, and voters were faced with a stark choice between State Attorney General James Uthmeier and his Democratic challenger, Jose Javier Rodriguez, a former state legislator and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor. -
In an application review, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said the number of slips should be reduced to just 250.
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The proposed tax cut referendum could cut funding to the agency that oversees flood control to over 9 million people by over $415 million over the next five years. -
The two longtime county residents say without a vote, the marina violates a 1993 charter amendment to better protect public land.
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Facing a potential lawsuit over a planned marina, the draft lease lets developer David Martin renegotiate a deal to spend $100 million revamping the Seaquarium if the marina fails to get permitted. -
The unsolicited bid received by the school district proposes building 150 units on district-owned property carved out of a larger tract of pine rockland developed a decade ago amid lawsuits and public protests. -
In 1993, residents amended the county charter to require approval by two-thirds of voters for commercial operations on park land and in aquatic preserves. Now, two longtime county residents say they intend to sue the county to push for voters to decide whether a new privately operated marina should be built at the shuttered Seaquarium.
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As a dengue outbreak continues in Florida, mosquito experts warn a wet Florida winter fueled by El Niño could keep mosquitos buzzing. The outbreak also arrives just as mosquito control districts face a significant loss in funding if voters approve a November ballot measure — Amendment 3 — which would cut residential property tax revenue. -
A new research project aims to demonstrate that voracious black soldier fly larvae can turn stinky sargassum into food for fish, livestock and even cats and dogs.
