05/24/2026
Big Sugar has received over $60 million in Florida state subsidies since 2000. The Everglades is paying the price. 🌿
The sugar industry's nitrogen and phosphorus runoff has been feeding toxic algae blooms across South Florida's waterways for decades. What you're looking at isn't a natural event. It's the documented result of agricultural discharge that the state has repeatedly allowed, delayed, and underfunded the cleanup of.
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan was signed into law in 2000. It was supposed to be the largest ecosystem restoration project in U.S. history. Twenty-five years later, the algae is still here. The sugar fields are still here. And the campaign donations keep flowing.
Florida's freshwater system, its fisheries, its tourism economy, and the drinking water supply for millions of residents are all downstream of this decision. This is not an accident. It is a policy choice, made over and over again, by people who were paid to make it.
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