A fight for water in South Florida moved to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Nov. 20, as three major sugar companies continue to oppose aspects of the state’s Everglades restoration.
Those companies—U.S. Sugar, the Okeelanta Corporation, and the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida—appeared in Atlanta, represented by appellate attorney Paul Clement.
They argued that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ handling of two Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan projects violates a decades-old law and will result in the continued loss of a substantial amount of fresh water in Lake Okeechobee that they rely on and to which they are entitled….