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Captains for Clean Water: What’s been going on with Big Sugar’s Southland rock mine proposal

Over the past year, we’ve been fighting alongside our supporters to stop a reckless proposal by Big Sugar and the Southland Group (Phillips & Jordan) to excavate an 8,000-acre industrial rock mine in the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA)—just 1,000 feet from the $4 billion EAA Reservoir, the crown jewel of Everglades restoration.

This isn’t just another land-use proposal. If allowed to move forward, blasting a mine next to the EAA Reservoir could:

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