Manatees are starving to death, but Florida doesn’t seem to love them enough to save them
Miami Herald Editorial Board We love manatees in Florida. We put them on license plates. We name our school mascots ...
Tag: Department of Environmental Protection
Senate bill would undermine a community’s ability to protect its citizens from potentially dangerous industrial activities
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network What if your town were told by an energy company that it ...
The climate picture in South Florida by 2100 is ‘not pretty’
An interview with Albert Slap, Coastal Risk Consulting As part of its series “The Business of Climate Change,” which highlights ...
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 ...
Our elected officials are bungling the response to Florida’s rising seas
By Tania Galloni, Earthjustice It’s about time: the head of America’s disaster response department, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is ...
Restarting Florida’s economy by weakening water quality and growth management is a bad idea
Ryan Orgera, Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation and Rob Moher, Conservancy of Southwest Florida As we restart our economy, we have ...
Florida touts the beauty of the state’s springs, but the Legislature is passing laws that threaten them and the manatees who depend on them
The Florida Springsfest, which took place last weekend at Silver Springs State Park, is one of the Florida Parks System’s ...
Florida’s legislators need to provide the money to establish a potent task force that finally will begin to address the effects of the rising seas
Talk is cheap, and time is running out for Florida to get on with the difficult and expensive task of ...