Interested in the state of the environmental movement? The fate of the Everglades? Activists brawling amongst themselves? All this and more awaits you in my latest assignment for Grist: Trouble in Paradise: Ouster of Sierra Club's Florida leaders stirs up a storm of controversy:"The situation could be seen as just another ugly falling-out within a green group were it not for Florida's prominence in the environmental movement and in the Electoral College. The state has a wealth of mediagenic conservation causes: protecting the habitat of the critically endangered Florida panther (charismatic megafauna); fighting oil drilling off the popular beaches of the Gulf coast (charismatic human cuties in bikinis and Speedos); and, of course, restoring the Everglades (charismatic swampland). Add in the fact that Florida is once again poised to play a controversial role in a presidential contest, and you've got a lot of eyeballs on the state."
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