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• 3/31/21: Miami Herald After sugar’s $11 million investment, a bipartisan push to protect industry
• 3/31/21: The Capitolist Legal protections for farmers moving in Florida House

• 2/2/2021 Miami New Times: Poor, Black, and Sick Floridians Battle Big Sugar in Court
• 2/5/2021 NASA Earth: Smoking Sugar Fields in South Florida
• 2/18/21 Boca Raton Tribune: FDACS Phase 2 Burning Rules Are All Smoke And Mirrors

• 12/28/2020 WLRN South Florida: Belle Glade’s Falling ‘Black Snow’ Is An Even Greater Concern As The COVID-19 Pandemic Continues

• 11/23/20 Spectrum News Orlando: Environmentalists Call for Action on Sugarcane Burning, Effects Could Aggravate COVID-19 Patients
• 11/20/20 Palm Beach Post: In Muck City, Glades activists argue, Black lives matter
• 11/15/20 Rachel Carson Council: The Bitter Side of Sugar
• 11/7/20 Green Party US: Sugarcane Nightmare: Our Children must not live in a Hazard Zone!

• 8/27/20 – WLRN/NPR: Sugarcane Burning Impacts On Palm Beach County Residents
• 8/19/20: Grist: Fire Drill ‘They’re killing people by doing this’ — why students at a school 40 miles from Mar-a-Lago can’t go outside

• 3/28/20 – Bloomberg News: The Burning Problem of America’s Sugar Cane Growers 

• 12/1/19 AP News: Sugar field burning plagues poor Florida towns with soot 

• 11/22/19 Food Tank: https://foodtank.com/news/2019/11/big-sugar-in-florida-faces-lawsuit-for-sugar-field-burning/?fbclid=IwAR2SCAVPYY5coTeNRJZAPq2v3QTj1UT8HlNRxO3azbuODAn6O6ICSb1r-Fc

• 9/1/19 Naples Daily News: https://www.naplesnews.com/story/opinion/2019/09/01/editorial-health-risk-not-smoke-something-we-can-live-without/2146365001/ 

• 8/26/19 WGCU/NPR: https://news.wgcu.org/show/gulf-coast-life/2019-08-20/the-campaign-to-stop-pre-harvest-sugarcane-field-burning
• 8/21/19 TCPalm: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/investigations/2019/08/21/sugar-cane-burning-increases-risk-cancer-and-asthma-studies-show/1571446001/?fbclid=IwAR2dYq4Wyio3vQG4xIga-c0EhEEsmSJA9wUlxNv1lvKzkXvvAmA5xNvIJUg 

• 7/15/19 Civil Eats: https://civileats.com/2019/07/15/burning-sugarcane-in-florida-is-making-people-sick-could-green-harvesting-change-the-game/?fbclid=IwAR3kUlFfGkgsfiVG0PtsavWv3q87iWjinRtqfcBw8OfFtU0XRwdabQDOMas 
• 7/9/19 Final Call: https://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/Black-snow-from-sugarcane.shtml 
• 7/9/19 WLRN/NPR: https://www.wlrn.org/post/lawsuit-seeks-ban-sugarcane-burning-palm-beach-county#stream/0 

• 3/26/19 TheMarjorie.org: Pt.1  https://tinyurl.com/y58hxnhb; Pt. 2 https://tinyurl.com/y3jmw5lb; Pt. 3 https://tinyurl.com/yyjhy2pg

• 10/18/18 Palm Beach Post: https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20181018/glades-residents-sierra-club-challenge-industry-on-burning-of-sugarcane-fields 

7/5/18: Bullsugar.org

https://bullsugar.org/florida_fights_glades_sugarcane_burning/?fbclid=IwAR2jngOmq-_YtOT68vGxs-foR5wP3MVE02AOY5STBTe_5AHDpz1YavOchO8

• 6/29/18 Tampa Bay Times: https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/Maxwell-Gubernatorial-candidate-Chris-King-looks-at-sugar-cane-burning_169595613/ 
• 6/2/18 Tampa Bay Times: https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/Maxwell-Homeowners-protest-Big-Sugar-s-burning-of-cane-fields_168740756/ 

• 1/17/18 WLRN/NPR: https://www.wlrn.org/post/movement-glades-communities-aims-end-sugarcane-burning#stream/0 

• 3/14/21: Sun-Sentinel Editorial Florida’s ‘right to farm’ bill protects the right to harm | Editorial
• 3/31: Orlando Sentinel Guest Editorial Right to Farm law unfairly favors agriculture

• 9/07/20 Florida sugarcane growers live in a parallel universe. Don’t buy in. https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/columns/2020/09/07/mitchell-sugarcane-growers-live-parallel-universe-dont-buy-in/5737908002

• 8/19/20: Stop the burn of pre-harvest sugarcane burning https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2020/08/19/point-of-view-stop-burn-of-pre-harvesting-sugarcane/113348626/

• 5/12/2020: Free corn doesn’t mitigate the harm from cane burning https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/2020/05/12/letters-editor-may-12-2020/3093672001/?fbclid=IwAR39ZGWCZVm7uVb4gMb2tXF-5ytkhsmSSN20pLfqpduL08CIGMvdhOrMEC0 

• 4/22/2020 Virus underscores need to stop sugar field burning https://www.naplesnews.com/story/opinion/contributors/2020/04/22/opinion-virus-underscores-need-stop-sugar-field-burning/3007859001/?fbclid=IwAR2EdR68dK5sPmVm9s4Oq5u8G6JODdwKDxRHjxDodYB8qL30maseDgfJ68M 

• 9/19/19: Stop the burn, Big Sugar https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/letters/fl-op-letters-thursday-gun-rights-restrictions-big-sugar-bernie-20190919-2r562c4jnffihhgvram5zt4ywi-story.html 
• 9/11/19 We want to be free of sticky black smoke and ash from cane burning https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/readers/2019/09/11/letter-letters-editor-sept-11-2019/2262763001/ 

• 12/13/2018: Burning in the sugar cane fields is dangerous to health https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/readers/2018/12/13/letter-burning-sugar-cane-fields-dangerous-health/2287013002/?fbclid=IwAR00DVrkdoY8gqwG5wP_EQe-Vbwcd_uyP6w0fj8vR2mCQ9-JMPs92y3lpdo 

• 8/26/18: Stop the burning in Glades sugar fields https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/opinion/letters-campaign-posters-litter-serve
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• 7/13/18: Don’t burn sugar cane, period https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/letters/Sunday-s-letters-Stop-burning-of-sugar-cane-near-the-Everglades_169932366/ 

• 4/19/18: Area sugar producers are anything but eco-friendly https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/readers/2018/04/19/letter-area-sugar-producers-anything-but-eco-friendly/523332002/