New deal reached to aid Everglades
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
The state has agreed to pay U.S. Sugar Corp. $1.34 billion, instead of the $1.75 billion originally proposed, under a revised deal to buy up vast tracts of farmland to restore the Everglades, the company said in a statement. Environmentalists praised the new deal.
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