Supporting the people of Key West, who voted overwhelmingly to limit large cruise ships in the Florida Keys. #NoBigShips #StopTheSilt
Key West, FL
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Aerial footage of @RoyalCaribbean Serenade of the Seas creating massive turbidity disturbance at Port of Key West. This used to happen 800 times a year and is why we voted them off the island.
Congratulations to @StevenNekhaila. We've been on opposite sides of some issues, but when we've sat down together we found mutual respect and a lot of issues in common. Always great to see a Key Wester rise to the national level.
Ed Russo is a deeply knowledgable and passionate defender of clean water. This is an excellent move by @realDonaldTrump
I am pleased to announce that Ed Russo, an Environmental Expert, will lead our Environmental Advisory Task Force, which will advise my Administration on initiatives to create great jobs and protect our natural resources, by following my policy of CLEAN AIR and CLEAN WATER. Together, we will achieve American Energy DOMINANCE, rebuild our Economy, and DRILL, BABY, DRILL. Congratulations Ed!
Important election this summer for @City_of_KeyWest District 6. Attorney Marci Rose has entered the race w/ a background in environmental law & record of advancing local water-quality protections. She faces former city planner Thaddeus Cohen; and undertaker Aaron Castillo.
Here’s the most crowded @City_of_KeyWest Commission race so far: the district that includes Bahama Village. keysweekly.com/42/key-west-c…
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Florida Keys Drinking Waters is Forever Chemical Contaminated. HIGHEST IN STATE!!
fkec.org/fkecwp23/wp-content…
Florida's Right to Clean Water @FL_RTCW constitutional amendment is critical for our state?
Join the effort at our website. #flrtcw2026 - Time to stop #toxicflorida
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Brooklyn: Dead whale found on the bow of MSC Meraviglia. Ships are the leading cause of death for whales. 20,000 a year are killed. There are measures available to decrease these deaths. Are shipping and cruise lines willing to implement them? ship-technology.com/features…
A whale arrived on bow of the MSC ship MERAVIGLIA Sat 5/4/24. The @USACE_NY vessel DRIFTMASTER removed it and took it to their debris barge in NJ. @amseasorg is reliable source going forward.
@gothamwhale in case this was in yr catalogue.
#whales #whalestrikes #cruiseships #portofny #maritime #RedHook #Brooklyn #NYC #WaterStories
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ICYMI: The sawfish that was the first-ever attempt to rescue one of the endangered species in an ongoing die-off has died. But wildlife officials say they’ll keep trying.
Wildlife officials have euthanized a rare sawfish rescued last month amid an extraordinary die-off after its condition deteriorated. Rescue efforts are ongoing...
wlrn.org/environment/2024-05…
Turns out there’s good money in watching sawfish die in fish-tanks, growing coral in labs & watching it die in the ocean, & greenwashing cruise ship operations in Key West. Congrats on all your revenue @MoteMarineLab. mote.org/news/article/mote-n…
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SCOOP: Patrick Bainter, lead consultant for Florida Senate Republicans, admits to hiring disgraced ex-senator, and approving a dirty trick: a 2020 "ghost" candidate who helped oust a Democrat that had been a thorn in the side of Florida Power & Light.
floodlightnews.org/florida-g…
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We pump millions of gallons of pharmaceutical laden human waste into the ocean off South Florida daily and everyone is wondering why massive algae mats are smothering all the coral and fish are spinning around in circles and acting like Philly zombies #nature
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This crisis emerging out of the Florida Keys is an alarming reminder of the water-quality crisis in Florida.
We haven't done enough to rein in the pollution that leads to water problems, like the destruction of an endangered species.
ecowatch.com/noaa-sawfish-fl…
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Federal judge orders Biscayne National Park to publish rules for long-stalled marine preserve wlrn.org/environment/2024-04…
New: @rlopolis blasts @FLDEPNews in @wlrn interview w @jenstaletovich re @GovRonDeSantis vote to allow larger cruise ships in the #FloridaKeys:
“We have a regulatory agency that is not regulating.”
“We need federal oversight of clean water issues in FL.” wlrn.org/environment/2024-03…
It's come to this. @GovRonDeSantis and @FLDEPNews have so completely failed to protect clean water in Florida that fish have to be "rescued" from the ocean by the federal government and placed in tanks on land.
@NOAAFisheries says it will begin rescuing sick sawfish amid an ongoing fish die-off in the Lower Keys. They say it's a first for the agency as the number of deaths rises to 28, with reports of another 109 affected. More @WLRN.
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State regulators allow this to happen.
How can they be held accountable for the harm inflicted?
Here’s one sure way.
Have you signed and shared the constitutional amendment petition yet?
@FL_RTCW -
Floridarighttocleanwater.org
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What we wonder about is the people on those huge ships. At least some of them might be concerned for the fragile beauty they see in the Keys. Do they realize that the way they got there harms that beauty?
The #FloridaKeys are home to countless endangered species — like the bottlenose dolphins seen here as they try to escape plumes of muddy water caused by a large cruise ship on the approach to Key West.
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#Florida Keys could see larger cruise ships under new @FLDEPNews proposal, which goes to @GovRonDeSantis & and the Cabinet today. He & the Legislature blocked Key West voters from imposing restrictions on ships in 2021. subscriber.politicopro.com/a… via @bruceritchie
