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  Installing Emergency Generators in Miami-Dade Public Housing Would Cost $150 Million

  August 14 at 8:30 a.m.

  After 12 senior citizens overheated and died last year in a sweltering Hollywood nursing home where Hurricane Irma knocked out the air conditioning, commissioners in Miami-Dade County agreed to look into installing generators in all of the county's public housing developments. But now that officials have crunched the numbers, those improvements seem unlikely to ever happen.

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  As Algae Bloom Grew, Miami Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart Took $27,200 From Big Sugar

  August 8 at 8:30 a.m.

  From the beginning of June until early July, an algae bloom in Lake Okeechobee grew and grew until it covered 90 percent of the lake's surface. Then the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released water from the lake, letting the algae migrate to both coasts of Florida. The nasty, toxic...

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  Environmentalists Fight FPL Plan to Keep Nuclear Plant Open Until 2053

  August 2 at 4:07 p.m.

  Compared to wind farms and solar parks, nuclear power plants are, in general, extremely expensive to operate and terrible for their surrounding environments. Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station in Homestead certainly has not done good things for the local water supply. The power plant's infamous canal system...

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  After Neglect by Officials During Irma, Liberty City Activist Opens Warehouse to Help With Next Storm

  July 31 at 9 a.m.

  The Monday morning after Hurricane Irma made landfall, Valencia Gunder woke up feeling hopeless. Her house in Liberty City had flooded. Power was out across her neighborhood and would be for days. Though cell service was spotty, texts from her neighbors kept jolting her phone. Everyone was asking Gunder the same thing: "When is help coming?"

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  FIU Researchers Invent Machine That Can Detect Zika in 40 Minutes

  July 30 at 2:42 p.m.

  It's been two years since Miami's Summer of Zika, when everyone was freaked out about mosquitoes and your friends all canceled their trips to Florida. But although the public frenzy about the virus has since died down, dozens of Floridians are still being diagnosed with Zika. According to the Department of Health, at least 59 travel-related cases have been reported across the state so far this year.

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  Miami Beach Wants to Expand Its Ban on Plastic Straws

  July 20 at 8:30 a.m.

  In 2012, Miami Beach became one of the first cities in the nation to enact a partial ban on plastic straws. Since then, the so-called straw wars have heated up: Seattle, Malibu, Santa Barbara, and Oakland recently passed ordinances banning their use, and New York City is mulling a similar move. Meanwhile, businesses such as Starbucks and Royal Caribbean have announced plans to ditch the plastic tubes.