Toxic Algae Bloom Season
Florida is bracing for a major algae bloom this spring —potentially at the scale of 'Toxic 2018.' That's the year months-long blue-green algae blooms choked the state's coasts, killing marine life, damaging the Everglades, and wounding the state's tourism, recreation and real estate sectors.
Big Sugar, it won't surprise you, is behind the blooms. Captains for Clean Water, a grassroots nonprofit, has a helpful breakdown of how the sugar industry's phosphate-laden runoff pollutes Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, and Florida's coastlines.