Environmentalists: Don’t Trust Army Corps on Port Everglades Dredging

Jess Swanson of the Broward Palm Beach New Times writes: After a decades-long approval process, a plan to deepen and widen Port Everglades was greenlit by the Army Corps of Engineers on Friday afternoon. Because the bigger port will accommodate bigger ships, local government officials are praising the expansion as an economic win, but environmental groups aren’t so enthusiastic. They are more concerned about the plan’s impact on coral reefs, seagrass, and mangroves — especially after it was discovered earlier this year that the similar PortMiami project unexpectedly destroyed large numbers of coral. Read full article here.