Can Rick Scott command the water management district governing boards to change their property tax level by 25%? Aside from this being a bad idea, no known provision of Florida law gives him that authority. In fact, if the governor … Continue reading
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Florida water law, as it exists today, is based largely on the recommendations of the 1971 “Model Water Code” written by University of Florida law professor Frank Maloney and several others. As the Model Water Code recommended for Florida, surface … Continue reading
Federal Judge Robert Hinkle approved in late 2009 a settlement of a lawsuit about Florida water quality standards. He agreed that the U.S Environmental Protection Agency’s had failed to to make Florida adopt numeric water quality criteria for nutrients and … Continue reading
Before answering that question, we have to consider the answer for different regions of Florida, for different kinds of users, and over what period of time. The U.S. Drought Monitoring site (Drought.gov on the list of agencies to the right … Continue reading
Nineteen Florida congressional representatives voted recently to cut off U.S. financial contributions for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Five voted against the change in policy. The split exactly followed the current partisan divide in Congress. The IPCC takes … Continue reading