Audubon of Florida Director of Advocacy Charles Lee was published as a guest columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, where he writes about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recent steps to push Everglades restoration forward.  Follow the link to the Orlando Sentinel to read the full article.

From the Orlando Sentinel:

EPA has clarified the need for construction of treatment areas necessary to meet the standard — an additional 42,000 acres — and has identified the most easily utilized lands for these facilities: property the state already owns, or has already committed to buy. Also, EPA has wisely offered Florida the opportunity to submit an alternative plan in which the state could reduce the number of acres of treatment area that would have to be constructed at public expense — by ordering the polluting sugar industry to spend its own money to clean up phosphorus on its own land.