Environmental

Report Finds Water Pollution in Florida Costs up to $10.5 Billion, Annually

EPA action on clean-up plan expected soon

Tallahassee, FL–(ENEWSPF)–November 28, 2012. In the first comprehensive review of its kind, the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), based at Tufts University, has released a white paper entitled Valuing Florida’s Clean Waters. The paper finds that algae and red tide outbreaks caused by water pollution cost Floridians between $1.3 billion and $10.5 billion each year.
Lesley Gamble paddles through green slime outbreak on the Santa Fe River on May 22, 2012. Photo by John Moran.
 
Lesley Gamble paddles through green slime outbreak on the Santa Fe River on…

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