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The Everglades, however, proved to be a bipartisan cause. The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) was authorized by the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on December 11, 2000. It approved the immediate use of $1.3 billion for implementation to be split by the federal government ...
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) is the plan enacted by the U.S. Congress for the restoration of the Everglades ecosystem in southern Florida.. When originally authorized by the U.S. Congress in 2000, it was estimated that CERP would cost a total of $8.2 billion and take approximately 30 years to complete.
The Everglades' long-term survival will depend partly on whether mangroves, among its most unique and threatened native species, can keep pace with climate impacts. These salt-tolerant trees that buffer erosion and hurricanes are shifting inland as sea levels rise. While restoration efforts have helped, higher seas remain a threat.
Progress in Everglades restoration has been outrageously slow, and even Graham was accused of not being aggressive enough. At the groundbreaking of a restoration project decades ago, Stoneman ...
Everglades restoration received $96 million of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. [188] As a result of the stimulus package, a mile-long (1.6 km) bridge to replace the Tamiami Trail , a road that borders Everglades National Park to the north and has blocked water from reaching the southern Everglades, was begun by the Army ...
We strongly disagree with the Jan. 24 op-ed, “A vicious legal battle is the result of putting politics above Everglades restoration,” by Stuart Pimm and Christopher McVoy.
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The Everglades Forever Act is a Florida law passed in 1994 designed to restore the Everglades. [1] The law recognized, the “Everglades ecological system is endangered as a result of adverse changes in water quality, and in the quantity, distribution and timing of flows, and, therefore, must be restored and protected.” [2] The law was codified in § 373.4592, Florida Statutes.