Water & Wetlands

Litigation Alert: Settlement Secured For Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Everglades Law Center is pleased to announce that, on behalf of client National Audubon Society, it has secured a settlement with Cameratta Companies to resolve ...
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Miami-Dade Cities Overall Improve Stormwater Compliance, but Biscayne Bay is still at Risk

Miami-Dade County and its co-permittee municipalities obtain a C in stormwater permit compliance, an increase over the 2021 report, with progress in planning and documentation, ...
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Settlement Secured in Challenge to Environmental Resource Permit for Proposed Mining / Water Resource Project adjacent to Everglades Infrastructure 

MIAMI, Fla. — On February 18, 2026 the Everglades Law Center (ELC), and co-counsel Richard Grosso, P.A., Hartsell Ozery, P.A., and Douglas MacLaughlin, negotiated a ...
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Victory for Everglades Restoration: Federal Court Upholds Army Corps’ Efforts Against Sugar Industry Challenge

Yesterday, environmental and civic groups, state and local governments, and advocates for Everglades restoration celebrated a major legal victory in federal court. The 11th Circuit ...
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Protecting Opa-locka’s Water: A Victory for Clean Water and Community Health

When communities come together to demand accountability, real change happens. That’s exactly what unfolded in Opa-locka, Florida, where a recent legal settlement under the Clean ...
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Alert – Everglades Law Center Appellate Victory!

This week, Everglades Law Center and our co-counsel secured a legal win in our litigation to prevent the development of the South Dade Logistics and ...
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Inside the court hearings in Atlanta opposing the Sugar industry’s challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of the Everglades Agricultural Reservoir

ELC is representing a broad group of amici curiae opposing the Sugar industry’s challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of the Everglades ...
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ELC in Federal Court to Defend Everglades Restoration

Today, Everglades Law Center (ELC) attorneys are in federal court defending the Everglades against a legal challenge that threatens critical restoration projects like the Everglades ...
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Opportunities and Obstacles: Climate Resiliency Planning in Miami-Dade

Check out this recording from our session “Opportunities and Obstacles: Climate Resiliency Planning in Miami-Dade” from Volo Foundation’s Florida Climate Week.  In this panel discussion, ...
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