These four challenges will shape the next farm bill – and how the US eats
The next farm bill is projected to cost taxpayers $1.5 trillion over 10 years.
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Cumbersome permitting process holds up infrastructure projects our economy needs
We can make sensible changes to the National Environmental Policy Act without sacrificing progress on climate change and environmental protection.
The recent Supreme Court ruling about EPA’s authority is about the separation of powers, not whether utilities should burn coal
By Bob Bunting, CEO, The Climate Adaptation Center (CAC), Inc. By now you have read how the U.S. Supreme Court ...
Florida-based association urges Congress to pass flood insurance bills sponsored by Sen. Rick Scott
By Paul Handerhan, Federal Association for Insurance Reform Flooding is the most common and costly natural disaster in the United ...
Big changes to the National Flood Insurance Program are going to mean higher premiums for most Floridians
By Shana Udvardy, Union of Concerned Scientists If you’re a homeowner or thinking of buying a home in Florida, you ...
Reducing your personal carbon footprint isn’t going to solve the relentless warming of the planet
By Jeff Dorian, Citizens’ Climate Lobby It is a fallacy to say that a person’s reduction of their fossil-fuel consumption ...
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 ...
To avoid deaths from extreme heat, we need to quickly switch to clean power
David Hastings, climate scientist When I first moved to Florida from Seattle, I would escape to the cool Pacific Northwest ...
Trump’s promise to protect Florida from oil drilling is worthless
By the South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Board On Sept. 8, President Trump came to Jupiter and signed an executive ...