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 ...
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Thanks for the oil drilling ban, Mr. President, but you’re no Teddy Roosevelt
Palm Beach Post Editorial Board It was President Donald Trump, self-styled superhero, who descended on Jupiter last week, swooping into ...
‘The Number One environmental president since Teddy Roosevelt’ knows how many votes Florida has in the Electoral College
By Fred Grimm, Sun Sentinel Alaskans must wonder what makes Florida so damn special. Why would the president allow oil ...
Trump’s secret plan to open Florida to offshore oil drilling must be stopped
By Sean Shaw, former Florida State Representative Fishing in the gorgeous blue waters off Florida’s Gulf Coast is a passion ...
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 ...
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 ...
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