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Stand on the beach in Boca Raton at 10 or 11 at night with your back to the ocean — over the dunes, you'll see a glowing sky. This artificial light is coming from city buildings and homes. It's confusing baby sea turtles.
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Burning oil, coal and other fossil fuels releases plumes of tiny, dangerous particles. A new study estimates that eliminating that pollution would save about 50,000 lives in the U.S. each year.
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The rising number of fires hamper decades of environmental efforts, and over 40% of Americans — more than 137 million people — live in places with poor air quality, a new report says.
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Tiny plastic debris — some so small you can't see it — has previously been found in human blood, excrement and in the depths of the ocean.
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A year ago, 215 million gallons of wastewater poured from the troubled Piney Point phosphate plant into Tampa Bay’s waters — a long-feared disaster come true.
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The latest plan cuts back on both the storage and cleaning needed to fix the lake. It eliminates a large above ground reservoir and treatment marshes, relying instead on underground storage wells.
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The study by the Environmental Integrity Project analyzed biennial pollution reports sent by states to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Many of manatee deaths have been attributed to starvation because of declining seagrass beds that are prime foraging areas, particularly in the Indian River Lagoon.
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"We see a really clear association between how these maps were drawn in the '30s and the air pollution disparities today," says an author of a study on the effects of the discriminatory policy.
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The measure had drawn opposition from Gov. Ron DeSantis and critics such as fishing guides who raced to the Capitol to appear in the Senate gallery. A leader of one group said the changes removed the “worst of the worst” in a bill that opponents argued was being rammed through the legislative process.
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Now the government is leaving, and moving the country's capital to the island of Borneo.
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Sarasota, Pinellas and Hillsborough counties spilled more than nine million gallons of wastewater from sewage plants in 2020.