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EPA removes official critical of Everglades restoration plan

http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/319360.html

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. --
A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official who expressed concerns about a proposal related to the restoration of the Everglades was removed from his role in the project, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Documents obtained by the St. Petersburg Times show that Richard Harvey he was taken off the restoration project in January after he told officials about concerns over a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposal to solve Lake Okeechobee's pollution woes by funneling the pollution into Biscayne National Park.

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Harvey, who retained his job as the head of the EPA's South Florida office, is the latest of five experts who have been taken off the project. The other people, all state employees, had either complained about funding problems, offered controversial research or suggested the politicians in charge weren't listening to the scientists, the newspaper reported.

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In an e-mail to Jim Giattina, his boss in Atlanta, Harvey said no one was talking about the issue of polluted water being funneled into Biscayne National Park until he brought it up.

In January, Giattina wrote Harvey a long memo that said he had discussed Harvey's comments about the pipeline with "several representatives" of other agencies. As a result, he wrote, Harvey would no longer serve as the EPA's expert on any aspect of the Everglades project. "I believe that your remarks compromise our ability to have an effective voice on critically important matters with regard to Everglades restoration," Giattina said.

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"There ain't absolutely no mention of this crap in the Bible, and so him and his heretic science fact-twaddling buddies are all going to roast eternally in the scorching HELL fires of DAMNATION along with all them there other free-thinking proles. Their SIN: threating to impinge upon imperial republicon designs. FATE: Eternal HELL"

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