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Attorneys from both sides agreed that the case, which claimed the burns reduce property values and compromise air quality, should be dismissed.

Democratic lawmakers and South Florida community advocates are teaming up to oppose a bill that would make it harder to sue farms. They say proponents of the measure are using it as a cover to support sugarcane burning that adversely affects communities of color.

Florida lawmakers are trying to make it harder to sue farmers. They say it's to prevent conflicts between existing farms and city dwellers who moved in next door. But Environmentalists fear it's actually to protect the practice of sugarcane burning in South Florida, which has resulted in a federal lawsuit.

South Florida sugar farmers are attacking an Everglades water-pollution report being circulated among lawmakers as flawed and misleading. They’re saying…