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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: U.S. Sugar Corporation

U.S. Sugar Corporation stories: 3 news summaries

(Newser) - As a revised deal by US Sugar to sell 180,000 Everglades acres to Florida nears completion, critics are stepping up their efforts to derail it, the Wall Street Journal reports. The deal, hailed by environmentalists, would allow the state to restore natural waterways, but opponents see it as a... More »

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Florida • environment • Everglades • bailout • sugar cane • preservation • U.S. Sugar Corporation

 Buyout Bid Threatens 
 Everglades Protection Plan 

Farming company offers to buy US Sugar

Nov 21, 08 12:36 PM CST
(Newser) - A possible new bid has thrown a wrench into the state of Florida's plan to buy most of US Sugar's land for $1.34 billion and use it to help restore the Everglades, the St. Petersburg Times reports. The Lawrence Group, which has tried twice before to buy US Sugar,... More »

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Florida • Charlie Crist • Everglades • Lake Okeechobee • U.S. Sugar Corporation • Lawrence Group

Analysis

 Big Sugar's Exit
 Gives Hope to
 Everglades 

Florida land deal boosts ecological preservation efforts

Jul 9, 08 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Everglades restoration may finally be a reality, writes Michael Grunwald in Yale Environment 360 during his “vacation from defeatism.” Florida's tentative $1.75 billion land deal with US Sugar would halt sugar production (and pollution) on nearly 300 square miles, and have an ecological ripple-effect that extends... More »

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Florida • endangered species • sustainable development • Charlie Crist • biodiversity • Everglades • U.S. Sugar Corporation

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