Sen. Rubio: Trump's Proposed Budget Keeps Everglades Restoration Moving
February 12, 2020
February 12, 2020
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, issued the following news release:
Half a century ago, there was a failed effort to build the world's largest airport on the edge of Everglades National Park in what is now the Big Cypress National Preserve. To put it in perspective, the planned Big Cypress Jetport would have been five times the size of New York's JFK Airport.
Clearly, things have changed for the better. Instead of laying tarmac over 39 square miles of . . .
Half a century ago, there was a failed effort to build the world's largest airport on the edge of Everglades National Park in what is now the Big Cypress National Preserve. To put it in perspective, the planned Big Cypress Jetport would have been five times the size of New York's JFK Airport.
Clearly, things have changed for the better. Instead of laying tarmac over 39 square miles of . . .