Molly Duerig
Environment ReporterMolly is an award-winning reporter with a background in video production and investigative journalism, focused on covering environmental issues for Central Florida Public Media. Previously, Molly was an investigative reporter for Spectrum News 13, where she spent 3 years reporting in-depth and daily TV news stories, including continuing coverage of an amusement ride tragedy in Orlando that earned a first-place Sunshine State award from the Society of Professional Journalists' Florida chapter. Molly speaks Spanish, loves to travel and is grateful to have had the chance to report stories from places as distinct as Nebraska, Peru and Puerto Rico. She has a master's degree from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
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For at least one water utility in Central Florida, PFAS settlement payments are starting to arrive. -
Fewer than 400 of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales remain. -
Winter Springs commission members voted unanimously Thursday to approve a plan to reduce flooding problems. -
Eligible Brevard County property owners can now receive larger amounts of money for septic system upgrades. -
Immigrant detainees with no pending criminal charges are flooding the Orange County Jail close to the facility’s capacity, according to county staff. -
Council members added new projects to Florida’s shortlist of lands to protect, including over 2,000 acres of land in Flagler, Seminole, Polk, Putnam and Volusia counties. -
A private, 670-acre property in Seminole County is one area the state could choose to acquire and set aside for conservation. -
Officials say drinking recycled, thoroughly-treated wastewater is perfectly safe but there are also psychological hurdles. -
As of this year, Florida rules allow for reclaimed water, or recycled wastewater, to be treated and distributed for drinking. -
The letter, signed by groups in all 50 states, asks for lawmakers to pause approval and construction of new data centers until regulations are in place. -
The draft state permit would let the commercial space company Blue Origin send about a half-million gallons of wastewater daily into the Indian River Lagoon. -
After initially excluding them, the state now includes electric trucks in Florida’s plans for millions of dollars earmarked for projects to reduce harmful emissions.
