There are a number of environmental issues in Florida. A large portion of Florida is a biologically diverse ecosystem,with large wetlands in the Everglades. Management of environmental issues related to the everglades and the larger coastal waters and wetlands have been important to the history of Florida and the development of multiple parts of the economy of Florida,including the influential agricultural industry. This biodiversity leaves much of Florida's ecological ecosystem vulnerable to invasive species and human sources of industrial pollution and waste.
Sharon Louise Gleason is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska. Appointed by President Barack Obama in 2012,Gleason is the first woman to serve as a federal judge in the District of Alaska. She was previously a state court judge on the Alaska Superior Court from 2001 to 2012.
Lydia Kay Griggsby is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. She is a former Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims and Chief Counsel for Private and Information Policy for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Jane Dorothy Hartley is an American businesswoman and diplomat who had served as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom under the Biden administration. She previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco from 2014 to 2017 during the Obama administration.
Rebecca Eliza Gonzales is an American diplomat who has served as the director of the Office of Foreign Missions since 2022. She served as the United States ambassador to Lesotho from 2018 to 2022.
The Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks is appointed by the president of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate. The Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks reports to the United States Secretary of the Interior,who is the head of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks has the direct responsibility for programs associated with the management and conservation of natural resources,including the National Park Service,Fish and Wildlife Service,Air Resources Division,American Indian Liaison Office,Geological Resources Division,and the Water Resources Division.
Christine E. Wormuth is an American defense official and career civil servant who served as the United States secretary of the Army from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party,she is the first female United States secretary of the Army.
Carmen G. Cantor is an American diplomat who is serving as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Affairs. She previously served as the United States ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia.
Tommy P. Beaudreau is an American politician who served as the deputy secretary of the Interior from 2021 to 2023. He served as the first director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management from 2011 to 2014 and as chief of staff of the United States Department of the Interior from 2014 until the end of the Obama administration.
Tracy Stone-Manning is an American environmental policy advisor who served as the director of the Bureau of Land Management in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2025.
David Weil is an American academic and economist who was the nominee to serve as administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the United States Department of Labor in the Biden administration. He previously served in this role during the Obama administration from 2014 to 2017.
Laura Daniel-Davis is a former American government official who served as acting deputy secretary of the interior,following the resignation of Tommy Beaudreau.
M. Camille Calimlim Touton is a Filipino-American water policy advisor who served as the commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation in the [[Biden administration] from 2021 to 2025.
Shalina Deborah Kumar is an American attorney from Michigan who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Carolyn Nancy Lerner is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.
Bridget Meehan Brennan is an American lawyer from Ohio who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. She served as acting United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio from 2021 to 2022.
Kendra Davis Briggs is an American lawyer who has served as an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia since 2023. She previously was an assistant United States attorney from 2010 to 2023.
Kate Elizabeth Heinzelman is an American attorney who served as the general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2022 to 2025. She was nominated by President Joe Biden to the position and was confirmed by the Senate on July 14,2022.
David Applegate is an American academic who has served as the 18th director of the United States Geological Survey from 2022 to 2025. He is also a professor at the University of Utah.
