Environmental

A Coalition of Nonprofit, Local Business Groups Plan Legal Action Against U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Protect Threatened Reefs

Groups Challenge Failure to Protect Corals in Upcoming Fort Lauderdale Dredging Project

Rachel Silverstein, Executive Director and Waterkeeper of Miami Waterkeeper, examines coral suffocated by sediment following the PortMiami dredging project.
Rachel Silverstein, Executive Director and Waterkeeper of Miami Waterkeeper, examines coral suffocated by sediment following the PortMiami dredging project.  Photo courtesy of Pete Zuccarini

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—(ENEWSPF)–May 31, 2016.  A coalition of environmental and SCUBA organizations joined together today to demand that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provide mandatory, common-sense protections for nearby reefs during an upcoming, proposed dredging project to expand…

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