The business community is ‘walking the walk’ in addressing the threats from the changing climate
By Jack Seiler, former mayor of Fort Lauderdale This essay is adapted from Seiler’s remarks at an online Resilience Roundtable...
Florida has come too far to allow the Clean Water Act to be dismantled
By Jenna Stevens, Environment Florida When it comes to our health and well-being, clean water can never be taken for...
Even if deniers don’t recognize the cost of climate change, insurance companies do
By Fred Grimm, South Florida Sun Sentinel columnist Environmental writers often employ a banal parable to explain America’s disregard of...
Florida’s cities can’t fight climate change alone; they need help from federal and state leaders
By Mayors Franics Suarez, Buddy Dyer and Jane Castor Florida cities are taking the lead on reducing carbon emissions and...
The same strategies can help us recover from both the pandemic and the climate crisis
By William Coty Keller, Ph.D. Before the pandemic, in spite of growing GDP, stock market highs and low unemployment, almost...
Don’t let Florida officials get their grubby little hands on fragile federal lands
By Carl Hiaasen, Miami Herald Columnist One of the only positive things about having Rick Scott in Washington is that...
Game-changing new climate science offers hope for Florida—If you vote
By Mark Hertsgaard, Covering Climate Now On Oct. 4, America met Michael Mann on “60 Minutes,” the country’s most watched and...
High energy bills plague low-income Floridians
By E. Leon Jacobs, Jr., Southern Alliance for Clean Energy In today’s world, it should be obvious that the underserved...
Producing plastic products generates an enormous amount of greenhouse gas emissions
By Catherine Uden, Oceana An estimated 17.6 billion pounds of plastic leak into the marine environment from land-based sources every year. This is...
During the debate, Trump confused ‘clean air’ with a safe and stable climate
By John Englander, Rising Seas Institute “What do you believe about the science of climate change? And what will you...