Florida’s home insurance rates rising nearly triple U.S. average; removing tires from ocean poses challenge
Home insurance costs in Florida are up about 57% since 2015, rising faster than in any other state.
Tag: Broward County
Rising seas are causing septic systems to fail
A University of Miami graduate student's research shows which Miami-Dade County sites are at risk, proposes strategies to make those ...
Peter Moore: Governments need to allocate more money to study Florida’s flooding threat and how to address it
An interview with Peter Moore, president and CEO of Chen Moore and Associates As part of its series “The Business ...
Manatees are starving to death, but Florida doesn’t seem to love them enough to save them
Miami Herald Editorial Board We love manatees in Florida. We put them on license plates. We name our school mascots ...
Miami-Dade County has its first ‘chief heat officer’; How cool is that?
The Miami Herald Editorial Board Miami-Dade County now has an official “chief heat officer.” That may sound like a gimmick — we ...
Florida needs a Resilience Officer who will make sure that solutions to address climate change are cohesive and well-executed
By Jon Paul “J.P.” Brooker, Director of Florida Conservation, Ocean Conservancy Florida needs to be the nationwide trailblazer when it ...
Broward County adopts regulations that require property owners to fix seawalls and disclose whether property is in ‘tidal-flooding area’
Albert J. Slap, Coastal Risk Consulting, and Jeff Marcus, Miller Legg, Inc. Broward County has passed an ordinance that sets ...
The celebration of Earth Day 2020 may be subdued, but protecting the environment is more important than ever
By Beam Furr, Broward County Commissioner Every year on April 22, thousands of Americans take to the streets – marching, ...
The Legislature and local governments need to fix Florida’s dilapidated wastewater treatment systems
The third largest coral reef on the planet, the Florida Reef Tract, spanning from the Dry Tortugas to Stuart, has ...
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