Bague Group

05/11/2022

Skip the fertilizer this summer and do your part to keep Biscayne Bay swimmable, drinkable, and fishable.

08/13/2021

Join the South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce-SFLHCC at the "Building a Blue & Green Miami-Dade County" Business Luncheon and learn about the economic opportunities & jobs to help , fight , reduce waste and make Miami-Dade for the future!

Join us to celebrate our Good to Green Awards – honoring local environmental leaders from FIU Institute of Environment, WPLG Local 10 & Ecopod who are making a positive impact in our community.

01/29/2021

Biscayne Bay finally has a chief officer. The ‘water princess’ vows to clean up pollution

Irela Bagué calls herself a “water princess” but her new job is not a fairy tale set against a shimmering turquoise blue sea. Some of the water she is working with is brown and smelly. Sometimes it’s full of dead fish. For the first time Miami-Dade County has created a government post devoted to answering two key questions: What’s polluting Biscayne Bay and how to fix it. Bagué, who headed a task force that designed a plan last year to restore the health of the bay, was named Miami-Dade’s first “chief bay officer” under Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. She will spearhead cleanup efforts and help the county take on long-overdue projects like connecting thousands of homes from septic to sewer and speeding up work to replace failing stormwater and wastewater systems. She said the job is that of a coordinator, advisor and advocate for the bay, someone who will push the county to enact policies to protect it.
“Everything that happens on land, everything we do as residents and business has an impact on Biscayne Bay. The environment is the economy, and if the bay isn’t healthy, Miami-Dade won’t thrive,” said the Miami native, whose Twitter bio says “ .” She often wears a silver pin with rhinestones in the shape of a crown on her Chanel-inspired jackets. Multiple committees have tried to address the bay’s woes over the past decades, but nothing comprehensive and truly transformative has happened. Reports were shelved, programs that were working expired, and political attention dwindled. Bagué says she will change that by harnessing the momentum created by a fish kill that left some parts of northern... click through to read more.

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01/29/2021

Great webinar on the importance of water quality in Little River Adaptation Action Area -thank you to all who attended. We must continue to work together to recover Biscayne Bay.

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01/28/2021

Read more about Biden's executive actions on climate change here: https://bit.ly/3adXhgD

Biden-Harris Administration Commits on Climate Change – Creating Jobs, Building Infrastructure, and Delivering Environmental Justice Today, President Biden will take executive action to tackle the climate crisis at home and abroad while creating good-paying union jobs and equitable clean energy fu...

01/28/2021

Biden signs executive actions on climate change: 'It's time to act': Biden administration plans to address the existential threat "with a greater sense of urgency."

President Joe Biden delivered remarks Wednesday about his plan to tackle climate change and signed related executive actions to further the key part of his agenda, which includes “creating jobs and restoring scientific integrity,” the White House said Wednesday. Biden said that his administration's plan is addressing the existential threat "with a greater sense of urgency." "In my view, we've already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can't wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes we feel it. We know it in our bones. And it's time to act," Biden said before signing the executive actions in the White House State Dining Room. The executive actions Wednesday direct the federal government to elevate climate change to a national security priority, conserve about 30 percent of all federal land and water by 2030 and suspend new leases for natural gas and oil development on federal lands and waters. The actions also will create a commission focused on environmental justice and green jobs, direct federal agencies to rely on science in their rulemaking and convene a climate summit of world leaders on Earth Day, April 22. "It's a whole of government approach to put climate change at the center of our domestic national security and foreign policy," Biden said. "It's advancing conservation, revitalizing communities and cities and on the farmlands... click through to read more.

Biden said that his administration's plan is addressing the existential threat "with a greater sense of urgency."

01/26/2021

How is climate change affecting South Florida? Water managers want to know

For the first time, water managers set out to analyze exactly how climate change is affecting canals, pumps and the many structures that control water flows in South Florida. The South Florida Water Management District on Friday presented an initial plan to develop its water and climate resilience metrics, a set of data that will help the district better protect cities from flooding while making sure that people, farms and businesses get the water they need. The initial findings show what has been long known: Climate change is causing heavier rainfall, and sea rise is flooding communities more often, turning freshwater wells salty and forcing the aging system to work longer and harder to keep South Florida dry. Last year’s wet season underscored the growing challenges to flood control. A wild storm season that started with record-breaking rainfall in May and ended with a double landfall by a very wet Tropical Storm Eta filled up canals and conservation areas to the brim. Even before the storm hit, water managers and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were trying to figure out how to make... click through to read more.



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01/22/2021

Florida unveils new statewide sea rise mapping tool

Florida environmental regulators say they are creating the state’s first uniform sea rise level projections as part of a new law to better prepare coastal projects paid for with state money. A draft version of the new mapping tool was unveiled Tuesday as part of a workshop on rules to implement the law. The tool incorporates projections from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, already widely used in South Florida, and expands them all along Florida’s oceanfront coast. It does not include rivers, canals or many bays already hit by tidal flooding. “This will be the first time that we get to establish a uniform signal across the state of what sea level rise projections should be,” said Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Noah Valentstein. “It's really a strong state signal that we're taking the impacts of climate change seriously.” State officials have been working since August with Jacksonville-based Taylor Engineering to have the tool ready by July 1, when the law is scheduled to take effect. But critics say... click through to read more.

The tool is part of a new law taking effect July 1 that calls for projects using state money to conduct studies on damage and costs tied to sea rise. Critics say the law falls short by not requiring fixes.

01/15/2021

Thank you WLRN Sundial for highlighting the importance of Biscayne Bay's recovery. Listen to my interview with Luis Hernandez here: https://bit.ly/3bEB2mn 🐟❤️

Miami International Airport Director Lester Sola explains the future of air travel. Also, Miami-Dade’s new Chief Bay Officer discusses her role in preserving Biscayne Bay. And residents of a Boynton Beach neighborhood are angry over the illegal construction of a lake.

01/13/2021

Congratulations and thank you to City of Miami Beach Government for passing a fertilizer ordinance. A great step forward for Biscayne Bay health. 🐟❤️ https://bit.ly/39yhRrw