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Bruce Ritchie

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News about competition and cooperation over water from the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint rivers. Former @politicofl. @brucebritchie.bsky.social
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Bruce Ritchie is a POLITICO Florida reporter covering environment, growth management and energy in the state Capitol.
He has covered environmental issues in Florida since 1993 previously for the Gainesville Sun, the Tallahassee Democrat and the Florida Current. He has written extensively about the fight over water among Alabama, Florida and Georgia and about pollution threats to Florida’s groundwater and springs.

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Parched Georgia farms find relief

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By Bruce Ritchie Verified
| Substack
CAMILLA, Georgia — From his pickup truck, Murray Campbell views the green patches of peanut plants growing in rows across his rolling red clay fields and says he sees a crop that’s behind schedule. As drought gripped Southwest Georgia from January through April, Campbell waited to plant to avoid pumping water onto his fields. Then when the rains finally arrived in May, there was so much of it he couldn’t get his equipment into the fields to begin planting. “We need the water,” Campbell said.
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Florida DEP, environmentalists back oil-drilling permit rejection

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By Bruce Ritchie Verified
| Substack
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — The state is asking an appeals court to reject arguments from a company wanting to drill an exploratory oil well along the Apalachicola River. In a court brief filed this week, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, which recommended permit approval in 2024, argued that a judge’s recommendation to kill the permit application should be upheld.
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Environmental groups find they still need courts to help protect Georgia's rivers

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By Bruce Ritchie Verified
| Substack
ALBANY, Georgia — Environmental groups in Georgia are turning to the courts again to protect the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers. Chattahoochee Riverkeeper announced May 22 it had filed a federal lawsuit against a company building a Columbus, Georgia, apartment complex, claiming runoff from the construction site was choking a stream that flows into the river.
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