By Christopher O’Donnell
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100703/article/7031043?p=2&tc=pg
Published: Saturday, July 3, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, July 3, 2010 at 12:43 a.m.
A federal judge has halted work at a 10,800-acre site in Hardee County that would bring mining closer to the Peace River and Charlotte Harbor watershed.
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Middle District of Florida Judge Henry Adams ruled that local environmental groups [...]

… as county commissions in Hardee and DeSoto Counties open their doors to expanded phosphate mining operations in the Peace River watershed we are inviting degradation in our own backyards….

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