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WASHINGTON — Florida lawmakers are warn-ing that Americans better get used to drinking or-ange juice from Brazil if they can’t secure the feder-al help to rescue the state’s billion-dollar citrus in-dustry ravaged by Hurricane Irma.

The September storm that pummeled the Sun-shine State flooded groves and uprooted trees,many of them only weeks from harvest. An estimat-

ed 421,176 acres of citrus production were affectedby hurricane or tropical storm force winds in a statethat provides 60 percent of the nation’s orange juicesupply.

The 31 million boxes of oranges Florida grovesproduced during the season ending Sept. 30 was thelowest since 1942, according to a Bloomberg Newsreport. Large numbers of oranges sit on the ground at the Story Grove

orange grove Sept. 13 in the wake of Hurricane Irma in Lake Wales.BRIAN BLANCO, GETTY IMAGES

State officials: Citrusindustry in dire needFlorida says federal rescue vital to avoid collapse LEDYARD KING USATODAY

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The Boy Scouts of America agreed Wednesday tostart admitting girls into the Cub Scouts next yearand to create a program for older girls in 2019.The change calls for Cub Scout dens, which arethe smallest groups, to have either all boys or allgirls. Larger Cub Scout packs could accept boysand girls.The program for older girls is likely to allow themto earn the top rank of Eagle Scout. Story, 1B

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A state agency charged with protecting Florida's wa-ters is moving closer to finalizing a plan to reduce theamount of pollution flowing into the CaloosahatcheeRiver and its estuary.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protec-tion met with local water quality experts and advocates

Wednesday to discuss how to best implement the sci-ence and data that has already been gathered to targetpollutants like nitrogen and phosphorus.

More than 11 million pounds of nitrogen flow downthe river each year, clouding waters and sometimesfeeding algal blooms that can cause fish and marine

STATE MOVING FORWARDWITH POLLUTION PLAN

Steve Peene, left, and Janet Hearn, engineers with Applied Technology and Management, and Lisa Kreigler, of the Lee CountyDivision of Natural Resources, discuss pollution in the Caloosahatchee River on Wednesday at the South Florida WaterManagement office in Fort Myers. KINFAY MOROTI/NEWS-PRESS.COM

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Greg Asbed says he’s no genius, justsomeone fighting for the rights of workersin Immokalee and others parts of the U.S.and the world.

Yet that’s what the Southwest Floridaman was hearing this weekfrom friends and family af-ter learning he was namedwith 23 others as MacArthurFellows — also known as “ge-nius” grant recipients.

Asbed, 54, and the otherseach will receive a $625,000stipend to continue their

work in specific areas.Asbed, who lives in LaBelle, is the only

recipient this year from Florida and appar-ently the first ever from Southwest Florida.

“I’m really excited about the opportunitythis presents for expanding our work,”Asbed said.

SW Florida manwins ‘genius’ grantDAVE OSBORNUSA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA

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plans are developed by the state to help clean up pollutedwaters and are based on a variety of data and modelsused to predict how systems will changes when pollu-tion loads are reduced.

"These allow us to explore the dynamics of the estu-ary to make sure we can address the right parameters,"said Amie West, with DEP's TMDL program. "We havenew and updated, better tools than there were in 2009,and they include more recent data and a more refinedtarget."

The original TMDL for the tributaries and the estu-ary were set in 2009 and then revised in 2014. Now DEPhopes to have the finalized version released for publiccomment by summer of 2018.

Florida DEP first developed the TMDL program in1999 and has since finalized 409 plans across the state.

"It’s never going to be perfect because it’s a model,"said Erin Rasnake, also with DEP's TMDL program, "butwe have to use this as a tool to get where we need to go."

Rae Ann Wessel, with the Sanibel-Captiva Conserva-tion Foundation, said she'd like to see more data aboutwater quantity as well as quality.

"One of the big challenges upstream of (the FranklinLock and Dam) is we get really big pulses of water, evenwhen it’s not from the lake (Okeechobee), and we can’tdetermine where it came from," Wessel said. "So thereare questions about inflow from the north that mighthave higher flow and from the south where it may beslower but may have more broad dynamics."

Some people at the meeting expressed frustrationover the length of time it's taken to adopt the pollutionloads.

"It's a TMDL we didn’t like, so that’s why we’re doingthis," said Pine Island resident Noel Andress.

Connect with this reporter: Chad Gillis on Facebook.

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He was referring to the work of the Coalition of Im-mokalee Workers that he co-founded in 1993 to redressinjustices in the Florida tomato industry. Asbed helpedto create the Fair Foods Standards Council, an indepen-dent monitoring organization, to ensure compliancethrough regular audits and complaint investigations.

The Florida Tomato Growers Exchange and over adozen purchasers, including Walmart, since 2010 havesigned on to the Fair Food Program.

“The country has a problem in the sense that 2 mil-lion people go to work every day, living in grinding pov-erty, facing some pretty horrific abuses at work just toput food on their table,” Asbed said.

“That’s been a problem, around forever. But the goodnew is the program we’ve developed in the fields of Im-mokalee has put a stop to all of that. What we need to donow is expand that.”

Asbed pointed to Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in Vermontthat Oct. 3 signed an agreement establishing labor stan-dards for the company’s suppliers in that state. Thepact also creates an enforcement strategy that encour-ages workers to speak up about violations.

The agreement borrows heavily from the Immoka-lee group’s Fair Food Program.

“We’re sort of at a pivot point where it’s already ex-panded up the east coast,” Asbed said.

He said similar pacts are underway between grow-ers and workers in Texas, and the $625,000 — paid torecipients quarterly over five years — “comes at justthe right time.”

A Baltimore native, Asbed received his bachelor’sdegree from Brown University in 1985 and his master’sfrom Johns Hopkins University in 1990. Prior to co-founding the Coalition for Immokalee Workers, hespent three years in Haiti as part of the Peasant Move-ment of Papaye. He also harvested watermelons in thesoutheastern United States for 18 seasons.

Other “genius” grant recipients honored work in dis-ciplines including cybersecurity, cures for diseases,pop culture and more.

The Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacAr-thur Foundation supports creative people, effective in-stitutionsand influential networks building a more just,verdant and peaceful world, according to its website.

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