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 pair of burrowing owls stowed away on a cruise ship at PortMiami last year and sailed to Spain. Planning their return took coordinating a dizzying list of international trade authorities, wildlife permitting and quarantine rules. -
The plan was part of an executive order issued in 2023 that set an ambitious timeline to build a coral pipeline to restore the ailing reef. Now labs are scrambling to shuffle funding or risk losing staff. -
The county's Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) has survived budget cuts, changing politics and the scorn of developers. But now environmental advocates worry its storied tenure might finally be coming to an end under plans to reorganize a department already handicapped by staff shortages and strip it of environmental permitting authority. -
The deal reached between Tropical Audubon and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection dramatically scales back the project permit from 8,000 acres in cane fields to just over 2,000. -
Commissioners agreed to give county staff another month to work out a deal with Kelly Tractor, hinting that without one they would reject the mayor's veto. -
At a press conference Tuesday, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava urged commissioners to uphold her veto rejecting a new heavy equipment headquarters on wetlands when they meet Wednesday. -
Under the order, residents are reminded to follow local rules that restrict lawn watering to twice a week, before 10 a.m. and after 4 p.m. -
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Kelly Tractor's plan to build new headquarters on 246 acres outside the urban development boundary failed to protect valuable wetlands and circumvented planning rules designed to protect them.
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State and federal officials who had been scheduled to attend the conference in Naples this week said Wednesday they would not attend, leaving organizers scrambling to replace speakers. -
County Commissioners agreed to amend its growth plan to allow Kelly Tractor to build outside the urban development boundary put in place decades ago to protect wetlands and farms. -
A proposal to build a sprawling heavy equipment depot on protected wetlands outside Miami-Dade County’s urban development boundary, and adjacent to some of its most flood-prone neighborhoods, is drawing opposition from county planners and environmentalists.
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According to a new study and hundreds of videos shot mostly in waters near Palm Beach County, manta rays can act as a mobile home, providing food, shelter, even honeymoon suites for fish in sometimes inhospitable waters.
