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A 2017 photo of the L-29 Canal and Tamiami Trail bridge west of Miami.

ELC Weighs in as a New Phase in Everglades Restoration Begins!

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On May 15, 2023, Everglades Law Center, together with the Everglades Foundation, National Park Conservation Association, and Audubon Florida, submitted comments to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of initial planning to revise operations of the Central and South Project (C&SF Project) to incorporate available portions of newly constructed and in-progress Everglades restoration …

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ELC Files Brief to Protect Everglades Lands from Improper Development

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On April 7, 2022, ELC filed an amicus curiae “Friends of the Court” brief in Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal in opposition to the development of a 13 mile highway extension of State Road 836 through critical Everglades buffer lands.  The highway at issue is slated to be built entirely outside of Miami-Dade County’s …

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ELC Advocates for Biscayne Bay Restoration

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The Biscayne Bay Southeastern Everglades Restoration (“BBSEER”) Project seeks to combine several projects originally proposed in the 1999 Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (“CERP”) with a focus on restoring more natural, clean freshwater flows into southeastern Everglades wetlands and Biscayne Bay.  ELC participates in Project Delivery Team meetings and collaborates with partners to help ensure the …

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ELC Files Brief to Protect Comprehensive Planning and Everglades Restoration

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ELC represented Tropical Audubon Society and Friends of the Everglades in filing an amicus curiae “Friend of the Court” brief in Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal in opposition to a trial court’s misinterpretation of Florida’s Community Planning Act. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida had challenged a development called Rivergrass under Florida’s Community Planning Act, …

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ELC Works to Ensure the Combined Operations Plan (“COP”) Advances Everglades Restoration

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ELC – alongside and on behalf of many Everglades restoration advocates – was deeply involved in the public process developing and deciding on the “final” operations plan for the significant new infrastructure built south of Tamiami Trail.  These new structures and projects were created to move water through the historic Everglades flowway in Northeast Shark …

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