Florida residents need solutions before the next hurricane
By Rachel Rhode As we move into a new year, many across Southwest Florida still suffer from the lingering impacts ...
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More Floridians must buy flood insurance, manatee deaths reflect ecosystem troubles
A roundup of news items related to climate change and other environmental issues in Florida: Florida's starving manatees reflect troubles ...
Florida’s Right to Clean Water: Sign this petition before it’s too late
Never should it come to this. The Florida Right to Clean Water is a petition movement sweeping its way across ...
Tell Florida lawmakers to protect our quality of life
By the Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board If we asked you why you chose to make Florida your home, many of ...
Florida needs a constitutional right to clean water to cleanse our polluted waters and protect us from our state legislators
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network I had never seen anything like it when it comes to petition-gathering: ...
What is Florida’s plan for the next hurricane season?
By Tampa Bay Times Editorial Board Hurricane season officially ended Nov. 30. Thank goodness. Tampa Bay got lucky again — ...
Gov. DeSantis should veto water projects that are ‘turkeys’ and waste taxpayer money
By Peter Barile, Marine Research & Consulting Gov. Ron DeSantis has received a record $112 billion budget from the 2022 ...
Good and bad climate news from the Florida Legislature
By Rosemary O’Hara The Republicans who run Florida don’t utter the words “climate change,” but that’s not to say they’re ...
Here’s what the Legislature can do to change Florida’s worrisome climate future
By Dawn Shirreffs Florida lawmakers have three big opportunities to change the trajectory of Florida’s future and mitigate the impacts ...
Florida should warn swimmers when there’s poop in the water
By Howard Simon, Clean Okeechobee Waters Foundation The Florida Legislature has had a tough time maneuvering through the politics of ...