Sep 27, 2024
Georgia Ackerman, director of the Apalachicola Riverkeeper group, ventures into the river’s final section near Apalachicola Bay. (Kevin Spear/Orlando Sentinel/Tampa Bay Times)
Supreme Court Weighs in on Florida-Georgia Water Fight

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision on a long-standing dispute between Florida and Georgia over shares of the Apalachicola River. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the decision. In the decision, Justice Barrett noted that since the drought of 2012, the oyster population in Florida’s Apalachicola Bay had collapsed.... Read More »