{"id":240817,"date":"2026-04-21T20:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240817\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:11:14","slug":"florida-claims-its-too-removed-from-liability-in-pollution-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240817\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Claims It\u2019s Too Removed From Liability in Pollution Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State of Florida argued before a federal appeals court Tuesday that the state\u2019s wastewater permitting authority is too far removed from harms against a local manatee population to be considered responsible, as a wildlife preservation nonprofit alleges.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of judges for the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit heard oral arguments in the case, Bear Warriors United Inc. v. Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection, after the state appealed a lower court\u2019s adverse 2024 ruling. <\/p>\n<p>Bear Warriors had argued the state\u2019s action, in issuing permits for disposing of sewage, allegedly resulted in manatees dying in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The State of Florida argued before a federal appeals court Tuesday that the state\u2019s wastewater permitting authority is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[106530,106528,28,30,29,25585,46487,106529],"class_list":{"0":"post-240817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-coastal-zones","9":"tag-fish-and-wildlife","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-natural-disasters","14":"tag-sewage","15":"tag-surface-water"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}