Activists Criticize Plans for Everglades
A Bush administration draft of rules for a $7.8-billion restoration of the Florida Everglades maps out a broad strategy to save water but has no deadlines or time lines demanded by environmental activists.
The draft, released by the Army Corps of Engineers, includes only the most general of plans for saving the nation’s shrinking wetlands.
The blueprint specifies elimination of canals, conservation of water and the tracking of wildlife over three decades.
Advocates of stronger environmental regulation criticized the draft, especially the lack of a time table. They feared pressure from agricultural and other interests would make state officials reticent to push ahead fast enough.
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