This is what republican/conservative rule will get you. That an much worse.
The EPA is on the job…blaming Democrats, no doubt. This will get worse before it gets better.
CBS News is saying Palm Beach County has closed ALL of its beaches due to the red tide.
You know what’s in Palm Beach County? Mar-A-Lago! 
They’ve got water on both sides of them, so they’re gonna get a double shot of that sweet, sweet Red Tide air.
Rick Scott the fascist FL governor did this by reducing environmental funding and changing the laws to allow for deadly poisons everywhere now in FL. A great tourist destination - at one time. Could be a long time to recover, if ever, considering the poisons being dumped by Gulf coast cities and states into the oceans with reckless abandon illegally, and now - legally.
I was in Florida on the west coast this week. Amazing how few people were there. Maybe it’s just the time of year but people told me it had to do with the red tide. Hope it recedes at some point but I would be reluctant to blame any one politician for the problem. I am no Scott supporter but nature does what it does in spite of our best efforts. There are plenty of reasons to keep Scott out of the Senate but blaming him for this is a bit of a stretch.
Don’t worry, I’m sure the free market will take care of everything.
You know what cures a Red Tide?
A Blue Tsunami.
Perhaps you should research the issue further.
Typical. Republicans make stupid decisions (pollution, tariffs, etc) to curry favor with their supporters, then use taxpayer money when political damage control becomes necessary (grants, agricultural subsidies, etc)
What does Red Tide Rick have to say?
Perhaps you should. Red Tide ( yes I live in Florida ) is not something a single pol can fix. Blue tide, the blue green alga crap that comes from the nutrification of water, is. We’ve been trying to limit nitrogen waste in our waterways for some time. Scott has been ZERO help. The major contributor to red tide is warmer than usual water. That’s a political matter related to global warming. A global thing. Scott has been ZERO help there as well. But no single Governor is going to fix it.
“People come here to be on the beaches and they don’t want to be coming down here to be exposed to red tide or sewage spills or whatnot,"
It’s the “whatnot” that people find really off-putting.
Also, one Governor can’t fix climate change, but he’s definitely a soldier in the do-nothing army and deserves all the scorn we can deliver.
I didn’t mean that as snark, I genuinely meant looking into it further. As you said, a lot goes into it and no one Gov can fix it. Sorry it came off that way, I should have made myself more clear.
I lived in Key West for several years 80s/90s and have come to Florida all my life. My grandfather owned a hotel in what is now the Deco District in Miami in the 1940s, then a place up in Lauderdale by the Sea, went there a couple times a year for decades starting in the 1960s. My folks had places on the West Coast, Bonita Beach & Ft. Meyers. I still have friends in Jacksonville, West Palm, Ft Lauderdale, Orlando, the Keys, Naples, Sarasota, Tampa. I’ve come to Florida for over 50 years. I love Florida.
Payback for 2000.
Interesting that K. brevis seems to have several sources of nutrients for propagating, but the natural ones are most influential well offshore. But close to shore, human factors play in significantly, as estuarine flows of nutrients. (Aka runoff.)
Is the red tide that is problematic in this circumstance more or less than 20 miles offshore?
One tidbit I found interesting.
Local prisoners are being used to clean this up.
Is it common in the US to use prisoners for work? I thought the “chain gangs” system had been abandoned.
I wondered if they got any safety protection for that job.
Skeletor’s solution: ban state workers from using the term “red tide”.
"Is it common in the US to use prisoners for work? "
More so in some jurisdictions than others, but, yes - quite.