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• Oil drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts would be banned permanently under legislation approved this week by the U.S. House of Representatives.
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• The Brevard Zoo is caring for 20 green sea turtles rescued after hatching prematurely.
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• Wildlife managers are investigating whether toxin exposure is to blame for walking abnormalities seen in a small number of Florida panthers.
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• The water is safe.
Those are the words of Melbourne’s public works and utilities director as some 200 residents gathered Tuesday evening for a town hall meeting on the community’s drinking water.
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• Fewer than 80 Florida grasshopper sparrows remain on the Central Florida prairie. Now to boost their population researchers for the first time are releasing captive-bred sparrows in the wild.
90.7’s environmental reporter Amy Green joined Juan Oteyza and Becky Schneider of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission as they released some of the latest sparrows.
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• Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to put electric car charging stations at every service plaza along Florida’s Turnpike.
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• The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is increasing patrols to areas in an effort to lower the risk of boating related manatee deaths.
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• The number of manatee deaths related to boat collisions is up.
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• For the first time, local leaders from across the region are joining in on an effort to plan for climate change. The East Central Florida Regional Resilience Collaborative is the third in the state and the nineteenth in the nation. WMFE’s environmental reporter Amy Green joined Matthew Peddie on Intersection to talk more about environmental efforts from all over the region.
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• A new federal report out Wednesday characterizes coastal tidal flooding as a rapidly growing problem, with impacts that soon will be chronic – unless communities adapt.
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