{"id":35903,"date":"2025-11-06T15:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/35903\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:01:25","slug":"florida-gov-ron-desantis-holds-news-conference-in-palm-beach-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/35903\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds news conference in Palm Beach County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Florida Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Ron_DeSantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Ron_DeSantis\/\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> on Thursday will hold a news conference in Palm Beach County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The event will be held at the EAA (Everglades Agricultural Area) Reservoir project on U.S. Highway 27 South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">DeSantis will be joined by Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Alexis Lambert, but specific details about the topic of the news conference have not been released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evergladesfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.evergladesfoundation.org\/\">Everglades Foundation<\/a>, EAA is designed to store excess Lake Okeechobee water so it can be cleaned in an adjacent stormwater treatment area and then sent south to nurture the Everglades and Florida Bay. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[VIDEO BELOW: DeSantis discusses Everglades restoration]<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The reservoir will also supply freshwater for the Biscayne Aquifer, which is the source of drinking water for millions in South Florida. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In addition, the foundation says the EAA Reservoir will help to significantly reduce the harmful discharges of polluted Lake Okeechobee water to Florida\u2019s east and west coasts.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday will hold a news conference in Palm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,139,141,140,557,99,412],"class_list":{"0":"post-35903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-orlando","10":"tag-orlando-headlines","11":"tag-orlando-news","12":"tag-palm-beach-county","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-ron-desantis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35903","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=35903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}