Florida Sugar Companies Make Appeal for Water Protections Over Everglades Restoration Projects

The projects include the Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir and a stormwater treatment area.

Rehabilitation work takes place on top of the Herbert Hoover Dike surrounding Lake Okeechobee, just a few feet from a home, in Pahokee, Fla., on Nov. 1, 2019. Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo

A fight for water in South Florida moved to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Nov. 20, as three major sugar companies continue to oppose aspects of the state’s Everglades restoration.

Those companies—U.S. Sugar, the Okeelanta Corporation, and the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida—appeared in Atlanta, represented by appellate attorney Paul Clement.