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Check out this article highlighting the 2024 Tallest Vision Plan in

the Bradenton Herald!

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"The vision plan acknowledges residents’ intent to remain rooted in their community. They also plan to organize and advocate for its long-term growth, stability and environmental health."

Check out this recent article in the Bradenton Herald about questions toward contamination cleanup efforts in Tallevast.

“A way forward for Tallevast and better lines of communication with county government, Lockheed and DEP could go a long way to a better future”

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Check out this op-ed highlighting industrial assaults on Tallevast in the Miami Herald.

 

"The impacts industrial pollution on the natural resources of Black and Brown communities have been well documented in scholarship and the media, but what is transpiring in the unincorporated, Gulf Coast community of Tallevast is particularly remarkable." 

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Check out this

2021 Boston Review article

that details the history of industrial pollution in Tallevast

"Environmental racism is global, but it is particularly common to Black communities in the U.S. South, where state authorities tend to allow more latitude to industrial polluters."

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For an archive of published articles and news on Tallevast, see our news archive

"Environmental contamination threatens to destroy Tallevast, Florida, a century old hamlet at the edge of the Everglades in Southwest Florida's Manatee County. In one of the nation's most emotional environmental divides, the residents find themselves pitted against giant defense contractor Lockheed Martin, Manatee County and the state of Florida."
- Miami Herald, 2010.

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