Governor Charlie Crist of
Florida, with Robert H Buker
Jr., the chief of U.S. Sugar,
held up an agreement struck
between the state and the sugar
producer.
Florida to Buy Sugar
Maker in Bid to Restore Everglades
By DAMIEN CAVE
and JOHN HOLUSHA
In a deal that
environmental groups said would be the largest ecological
restoration in the country’s history, a plan for the state to buy
the nation’s largest producer of cane sugar was announced Tuesday by
the governor and officials of U.S. Sugar Corporation.
