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• Florida’s military backers are renewing their support for the state’s land buying program. Florida Forever is a program that started in 2001 to conserve land through acquisition.
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• It’s not so easy getting to Denise Grasso’s home these days. I climb into a Seminole County Fire Department truck, which takes me up her flooded street to her front door.
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• PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Florida is among seven states where the federal government is funding a research project to try to better understand harmful algal blooms.
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• The Environmental Protection Agency has put a temporary freeze on the enforcement of emissions and other regulations as Florida electric companies restore power after Irma.
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• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for the Lake Okeechobee dike, and before Hurricane Irma they were preparing for a direct hit. What they got instead was a lot of water, and that is still a problem.
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• KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Florida Keys residents have yet another concern as they rebuild after Hurricane Irma: dirty water.
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• The St. Johns Riverkeeper says she’s seeing record setting flooding along the river in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
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• Florida’s orange industry has struggled in recent years — plagued by development gobbling up land and citrus diseases devastating the crop. Now Hurricane Irma has dealt it another blow.
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• Water managers expect Lake Okeechobee will rise to near historic levels after Irma.
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• Florida citrus growers are calling for federal help after Irma.
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