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Sugarcane smoke “Black Snow” burns continue despite FSU study linking pollutants to handful of deaths.
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As the U.S. bans sugar imports from prominent Dominican company Central Romana over forced labor allegations, the South Florida Roundup talked to an investigative reporter about the reality faced by workers in the industry.
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The federal fight against the soot and ash from pre-harvest sugarcane burns has ended — for now.
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Attorneys from both sides agreed that the case, which claimed the burns reduce property values and compromise air quality, should be dismissed.
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The U.S. Department of Justice filed the lawsuit in federal court in Delaware, arguing that the combination of Clewiston-based U.S. Sugar and Imperial Sugar Co., would hurt customers in the Southeastern United States.
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The governor is touting the monoclonal antibody treatment but is it safe and is it effective? Boca Raton recently enacted the strictest building inspection code in the state. Plus, a battle over the Everglades between sugar companies and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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A lawsuit filed by sugar growers this week claimed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated a congressional order to protect water supplies and asked a judge to send the reservoir back to the Corps for a new environmental review.
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Democratic state Rep. Omari Hardy, who represents north Palm Beach County along the coast, says the particle emissions added in the proposed expansion of the "Right to Farm Act" will negatively impact marginalized communities.
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People who live in Belle Glade, and surrounding rural areas where sugarcane burning takes place, have been worried about health hazards for a long time — they say now, with the pandemic, they're even more concerned about exposure to the smoke.
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A controversial plan to build a reservoir that would help address damaging water discharges in the Everglades ecosystem is one step closer to being…
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U.S. Sugar Corp. says it would honor a previous agreement putting land south of Lake Okeechobee toward Everglades restoration.U.S. Sugar staunchly has…