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...billion ecological bid is a bold move during a budget crisis. But if we can't save the Everglades with an abundance of money, science and goodwill behind an effort that's been hailed as a worldwide model, then what can we save? In South Florida, humanity has a unique opportunity to repair its abusive relationship with nature. Crist hasn't proved we can do it, but he's made that proof possible...
...have to be sympathetic to the pocketbooks of the people of Florida...
Charlie Crist, Florida's governor, on coastal drilling's potential to ease prices at the pump...
...beach-rich state that even Jeb Bush defended against offshore rigs, turned heads when he agreed with McCain. Or he at least said he was "willing to consider" the idea, as he told TIME on Wednesday, but only "if it could be proven to me that drilling off Florida's coast would be far enough, safe enough and clean enough" to avoid disastrous oil spills, especially during the region's hurricanes. "As long as I'm Governor, no Floridian will ever be able to see an oil rig off the coast...
...first day of his second annual Florida Summit on Global Climate Change, Governor Charlie Crist was wearing a bright green necktie. It's almost as if he were trying to stifle any doubts about his enviromental street cred, though you would think he shouldn't have to worry right now. It's a day after America's tree-huggers virtually canonized Crist for his stunning announcement that Florida would pay some $1.7 billion to buy out U.S. Sugar, and the company's 187,000 acres of cane fields, to revive the imperiled restoration of one of the nation...