{"id":439,"date":"2010-04-22T15:27:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T03:27:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-02T16:39:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T21:39:44","slug":"environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Lawyer Discusses Florida\u2019s Fragile Coastline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contact Brandi Palmer<br \/>\nManager of Media Relations<br \/>\n727-562-7381<br \/>\npalmer@law.stetson.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4083\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Hi-res version\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2143\/5756029082_7037af4ed4_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4083\" title=\"Tampa environmental lawyer Martha Collins addresses a crowd of students at Stetson Law on Earth Day.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.law.stetson.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Environmental-Lawyer-Discusses-Fragile-Coastline-lo-res.jpg\" alt=\"Tampa environmental lawyer Martha Collins addresses a crowd of students at Stetson Law on Earth Day.\" width=\"250\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tampa environmental lawyer Martha Collins addresses a crowd of students at Stetson Law on Earth Day. Click for high-resolution image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Martha Collins of the Collins Law Group in Tampa, Fla., addressed a crowd of Stetson Law students gathered in the Mann Lounge on the Gulfport campus \u00a0on Earth Day, April 22, \u00a0to hear her speak about the impact of beach erosion issues in Florida. Collins showed a series of slides illustrating Florida&#8217;s fragile coastline, and discussed the impact of beach nourishment on the environment and property owners.<\/p>\n<p>Last spring, Collins represented surfers in a lawsuit challenging a Palm Beach nourishment project. The surfers and their supporters said that nourishment could interfere with nesting sea turtles and other small animals and cloud the water, covering underwater coral reefs and rocks that anglers, divers and surfers need to see. The judge barred the project on environmental grounds.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about this case by visiting <em><a title=\"Read The New York Times article on this case.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/09\/science\/earth\/09surfers.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em> article on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martha Collins of the Collins Law Group in Tampa, Fla., addressed a crowd of Stetson Law students gathered in the Mann Lounge on the Gulfport campus\u00a0on Earth Day, April 22,\u00a0to hear her speak about the impact of beach erosion issues in Florida. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[573,452],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-1","tag-coastline","tag-environmental"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Environmental Lawyer Discusses Florida\u2019s Fragile Coastline - Stetson Law News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Environmental Lawyer Discusses Florida\u2019s Fragile Coastline - Stetson Law News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Martha Collins of the Collins Law Group in Tampa, Fla., addressed a crowd of Stetson Law students gathered in the Mann Lounge on the Gulfport campus\u00a0on Earth Day, April 22,\u00a0to hear her speak about the impact of beach erosion issues in Florida.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Stetson Law News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-04-22T03:27:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-03-02T21:39:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Environmental-Lawyer-Discusses-Fragile-Coastline-lo-res.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"325\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin account\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin account\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/22\\\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/22\\\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin account\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1fce554111db622e72a96c87920fb35a\"},\"headline\":\"Environmental Lawyer Discusses Florida\u2019s Fragile Coastline\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-22T03:27:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-03-02T21:39:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/22\\\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":190,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/22\\\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/Environmental-Lawyer-Discusses-Fragile-Coastline-lo-res.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Coastline\",\"environmental\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/22\\\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/22\\\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\\\/\",\"name\":\"Environmental Lawyer Discusses Florida\u2019s Fragile Coastline - Stetson Law News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/22\\\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/22\\\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/Environmental-Lawyer-Discusses-Fragile-Coastline-lo-res.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-22T03:27:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-03-02T21:39:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1fce554111db622e72a96c87920fb35a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/22\\\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/22\\\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/22\\\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/Environmental-Lawyer-Discusses-Fragile-Coastline-lo-res.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/Environmental-Lawyer-Discusses-Fragile-Coastline-lo-res.jpg\",\"width\":250,\"height\":325,\"caption\":\"Tampa environmental lawyer Martha Collins addresses a crowd of students at Stetson Law on Earth Day. Click for high-resolution image.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/22\\\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Environmental Lawyer Discusses Florida\u2019s Fragile Coastline\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Stetson Law News\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1fce554111db622e72a96c87920fb35a\",\"name\":\"admin account\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/author\\\/stetadmin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Environmental Lawyer Discusses Florida\u2019s Fragile Coastline - Stetson Law News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Environmental Lawyer Discusses Florida\u2019s Fragile Coastline - Stetson Law News","og_description":"Martha Collins of the Collins Law Group in Tampa, Fla., addressed a crowd of Stetson Law students gathered in the Mann Lounge on the Gulfport campus\u00a0on Earth Day, April 22,\u00a0to hear her speak about the impact of beach erosion issues in Florida.","og_url":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/","og_site_name":"Stetson Law News","article_published_time":"2010-04-22T03:27:36+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-03-02T21:39:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":250,"height":325,"url":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Environmental-Lawyer-Discusses-Fragile-Coastline-lo-res.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin account","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin account","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/"},"author":{"name":"admin account","@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/1fce554111db622e72a96c87920fb35a"},"headline":"Environmental Lawyer Discusses Florida\u2019s Fragile Coastline","datePublished":"2010-04-22T03:27:36+00:00","dateModified":"2012-03-02T21:39:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/"},"wordCount":190,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Environmental-Lawyer-Discusses-Fragile-Coastline-lo-res.jpg","keywords":["Coastline","environmental"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/","url":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/","name":"Environmental Lawyer Discusses Florida\u2019s Fragile Coastline - Stetson Law News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Environmental-Lawyer-Discusses-Fragile-Coastline-lo-res.jpg","datePublished":"2010-04-22T03:27:36+00:00","dateModified":"2012-03-02T21:39:44+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/1fce554111db622e72a96c87920fb35a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Environmental-Lawyer-Discusses-Fragile-Coastline-lo-res.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Environmental-Lawyer-Discusses-Fragile-Coastline-lo-res.jpg","width":250,"height":325,"caption":"Tampa environmental lawyer Martha Collins addresses a crowd of students at Stetson Law on Earth Day. Click for high-resolution image."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/environmental-lawyer-discusses-floridas-fragile-coastline\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Environmental Lawyer Discusses Florida\u2019s Fragile Coastline"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/","name":"Stetson Law News","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/1fce554111db622e72a96c87920fb35a","name":"admin account","url":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/author\/stetadmin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8680,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/8680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}