Molly Duerig
Environment ReporterMolly is an award-winning reporter with a background in video production and investigative journalism, focused on covering environmental issues for Central Florida Public Media. Previously, Molly was an investigative reporter for Spectrum News 13, where she spent 3 years reporting in-depth and daily TV news stories, including continuing coverage of an amusement ride tragedy in Orlando that earned a first-place Sunshine State award from the Society of Professional Journalists' Florida chapter. Molly speaks Spanish, loves to travel and is grateful to have had the chance to report stories from places as distinct as Nebraska, Peru and Puerto Rico. She has a master's degree from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
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Florida’s Presidential Preference Primary (PPP) is March 19, along with several local elections in Flagler and Orange counties.
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Panacea Global Energy, Inc. says it hopes to start building this summer and finish the project within three years.
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The demonstration, one of six held statewide Friday, protested Florida’s recent move to block gender changes on driver’s licenses.
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After initially favoring a temporary pause on heavy industrial development, the council voted 5-2 against it Tuesday.
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The National Hurricane Center says its new, experimental cone graphic will update an existing tool to convey wind hazards inland, not just along the coast.
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In the next 50 years, the report finds Florida could lose more than 2 million acres of its current agricultural land to development.
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This year’s wetter El Niño conditions are impacting prescribed burning statewide, per Florida Forest Service.
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Next, county commissioners must approve the draft plan, which will likely happen at the board’s Feb. 20 meeting.
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The initiative’s mission is to promote Martin Luther King Jr.’s six principles of nonviolence.
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The EPA recently gave funding to four Florida public school districts, including Orange and Seminole counties.
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The lawsuit follows months of tense community discussions about a proposed fuel terminal near Ormond Beach.
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Next, the measure will go to the Florida House during the upcoming legislative session.