The state’s top environmental management agency last convened on February 8, 2017.
Manatees are starving to death at record rates, red tide and algal blooms are becoming more common and deadly, and more than 200 million gallons of toxic wastewater leaked into Tampa Bay. These are just a few of Florida’s latest environmental catastrophes, and yet the state’s top environmental management agency, the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Environmental Regulation Commission (ERC), has not met in more than five years.…