This summer’s disasters are yet more evidence that time is running out for our leaders to address the warming climate
By Carlos Cepeda-Diaz, Citizens’ Climate Lobby You do not need to be heavily invested in headline news to know that...
Electric utilities should depend more on rooftop solar and less on solar farms
By Michael Cohen, Solar United Neighbors of Florida It is time for electric utilities to reinvent themselves with a new...
Safety concerns at Turkey Point are rising, along with the sea level
By Rachel Silverstein, Miami Waterkeeper The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently granted the world’s first 80-year operating license to Miami’s...
Florida’s manatees – and the state’s beleaguered environment – need help from governments at all levels
By Jon Paul “J.P.” Brooker, Florida Conservation for Ocean Conservancy In its Aug. 15 editorial, the Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board...
As the climate gets warmer, Floridians who work outside will have to cope with more and more days when it will be “too hot to work”
By Rachel Licker and Kristina Dahl, Union of Concerned Scientists In August 2018, a landscaper died tragically in Venice, Florida...
You should be very worried about the scenarios detailed in the latest U.N. climate report
By John Englander, oceanographer and author The new IPCC Climate Report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is making headlines. At...
My community is installing new gas lines so that everyone can have a gas stove
By Claude Gerstle, Citizens’ Climate Lobby What a coincidence, on the very day The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released...
The National Flood Insurance Program soon will start using a new risk-assessment method
By Amanda Bryant, Associate in National Flood Insurance The National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) new rating methodology, Risk Rating 2.0,...
Constitutional amendment is the best remedy to save Florida’s beleaguered waterways
By Richard Baker, Pelican Island Audubon Society “Every Floridian has a right to clean water.” These are the first words...
Parents: Code Red, … and no, I’m not talking about COVID-19
By Natalia Ortiz, The CLEO Institute If you think COVID-19 is our biggest threat, think again. As a mom, it...
“America has a ‘resilience deficit’; Will FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 help or hurt?
By: Albert J. Slap, President, Coastal Risk Consulting The U.S. sustained 298 weather and climate disasters since 1980, where overall...
For this Floridian, there is no safe place to hide from the warming climate
By Pam McVety, climate activist This is a message to Ron DeSantis, Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, Neal Dunn and all...
IPCC: Dangerous climate change is here
By John Morales (This column summarizing the IPCC 6th Assessment Working Group I report is adapted from Climate Central, an...
Floridians need to demand that their political leaders act now to lessen the damage we’re going to suffer from the warming climate
By John Burr, Resilient Jax Let’s face facts: We’ve blown it. The earth’s climate is heating rapidly, sea levels are...
The lesson from the massive fish kill in Biscayne Bay: Everything we do on land ends up in the bay
By Irela Bagué, Chief Bay Officer, Miami-Dade County As we near the anniversary of last year's unprecedented fish kill, I...
