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Nature 425, 551 (9 October 2003) | doi:10.1038/425551a

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Judge's sacking rocks Everglades clean-up

Betsy Mason

The Florida Everglades clean-up effort — one of the world's largest and most hotly debated environmental projects — is in trouble this week, after the judge charged with overseeing the scheme was kicked out for alleged political bias.The ousting on 23 September of Judge William Hoeveler of the US District court at Fort Lauderdale is the culmination of six months of bitter wrangling over desirable phosphorous levels in the Everglades.