With hurricanes lurking, the last thing Florida needs is drilling rigs off our coasts
By Susan Glickman, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy As Floridians watch Hurricane Isaias develop, we shake our heads about recent ...
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Cyanobacterial blooms from Lake Okeechobee waters coincided with red tides, placing Florida’s west coast in a toxic vice
By Brain Chemistry Labs In 2018, cyanobacteria from nutrient-rich waters in Lake Okeechobee were released down the Caloosahatchee River at ...
Deepwater Horizon spill: Offshore drilling plans recall oil-fouled tourist season
By Mark Lane, Daytona Beach News-Journal Ten years ago last week, President Barack Obama showed up in Pensacola to walk the beaches, ...
Teenager considers her family ‘climate refugees’ because they couldn’t risk staying in Florida during increasingly dangerous storms
By Luxha Aliheligi Phillips I’m a climate refugee and that’s the primary reason I am one of eight young Floridians ...
President Trump’s radical drilling plan threatens Florida’s coasts and the economics that depend on them
By Jacqueline Savitz, Oceana’s Chief Policy Officer I had been looking forward to Saturday. A few months ago, I fully ...
The pandemic has taught us that we can respond to harsh scientific facts; it’s time we do the same about the climate crisis
By Aria McKenna, The CLEO Institute As countries have responded to the pandemic by shuttering factories, reducing air travel and ...
Earth Day anniversary is a chance to celebrate 50 years of progress and recommit to the goal of saving our planet
By Katrina Erwin, The CLEO Institute The 50th anniversary of Earth Day is April 22 and we should look back ...
On Florida’s west coast, the beach is eroding faster than ever and government is having to spend millions of dollars to restore it
Sand is a precious commodity on the Gulf of Mexico's Manasota Key. Just ask beachfront homeowners. Laura and Richard Klinski ...
Allowing oil exploration in the Apalachicola River floodplain is a stupid idea
Our government can’t really be this stupid, can it? Our Florida Department of Environmental Protection is allowing one of the ...
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