Standing up for Florida means pushing back against offshore drilling everywhere
Our elected officials are right to be indignant about drilling off Florida’s coast, but shouldn’t stop there.
Our elected officials are right to be indignant about drilling off Florida’s coast, but shouldn’t stop there.
The eastern Gulf is facing new and profound threats from proposals to allow drilling closer to Florida..
House Bill 1143 would block drilling within 10 miles of the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Only a high-level independent investigative commission can fully unravel this disaster’s interconnected causes.
That's where the U.S. gets most of its offshore oil.
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