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 ...
Tag: Gov. Ron DeSantis
The confluence of red tide and blue-green algae is a dire warning that someone needs to better manage Lake Okeechobee
By Eve Samples and Howard Simon The scientists at Brain Chemistry Labs have sent the people of Florida another warning ...
Florida’s Clean Waterways Act undermines democracy and sensible environmental action
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network Increasingly, environmental issues are democracy issues. This is true in Florida where ...
Florida’s environment wins with signing of Clean Waterways Act and the state budget
The office of Florida Sen. Debbie Mayfield Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed The Clean Waterways Act into law. This ...
Solar storage can be a lifesaver, particularly during hurricane season
By Salome Garcia and Katie Chiles Ottenweller Hurricane season has arrived and already Mother Nature has given us plenty to ...
Bureaucratic bungling may delay the start of the vital Everglades Reservoir project
By Eric Eikenberg, Everglades Foundation Florida’s most effective response to the increasing threat of rising sea levels is one that ...
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 ...
Fight brewing over how high to keep Lake Okeechobee
By Jenny Staletovich, WLRN Media As the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gathers public input on how to operate Lake ...
Covid-19 highlights the need for power companies to help low-income customers make their homes more efficient
By Zelalem Adefris, Catalyst Miami There is nothing like being quarantined in your home for weeks on end to remind ...
Republicans can be on the front lines of finding free-market solutions to climate change
By Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, former member of U.S. House of Representatives Our climate is changing. This is no longer a debate ...
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