Climate Change
Judge Orders Jail Time For Prominent Everglades Scientist
Tom Van Lent is accused of stealing “trade secrets” from his former employer, the well-connected Everglades Foundation
ORLANDO, Fla.—A renowned Everglades scientist whose work has helped steer one of the most ambitious attempts at ecological restoration in human history has been sentenced by a state judge to spend 10 days in jail in a bitter legal dispute with his former employer.