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Florida Everglades Water Quality Plan Backed.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2003

The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 9--TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--A state panel Tuesday signed off on a plan to determine where farm and suburban runoff is poisoning the Everglades, a complex and instantly controversial rule that leavens its tough pollution standard with complicated loopholes.

David Struhs, Florida's chief environmental enforcer, praised the "historic" decision by the Environmental Regulatory Commission, stressing that it delivered on the state's pledge to set a super-low standard of 10 parts per billion for phosphorus, which even at incredibly low levels can alter the sensitive and struggling Everglades system.

But others -- including environmentalists and even the federal government -- weren't so...

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