Surfside building collapse is a shocking wake-up call for coastal condo homeowner associations
By Albert J. Slap, President, RiskFootprint™ In the middle of the night on June 24, a 40-year-old, 12-story condominium in ...
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Unless Floridians address the warming climate, we risk more storm damage, higher insurance rates and lower property values
By U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez Homeowners are the ones who incurred the hefty costs when extreme weather strikes, especially those ...
Miami-Dade County has its first ‘chief heat officer’; How cool is that?
The Miami Herald Editorial Board Miami-Dade County now has an official “chief heat officer.” That may sound like a gimmick — we ...
Florida should create a statewide resilience strategy and restore resilience officer position
An interview with Susy Torriente, Jacobs Engineering Group As part of its series “The Business of Climate Change,” The Invading ...
2020 showed Florida that sustainability and resilience are the only way forward
By Philip Stoddard, Florida International University This year made Floridians feel climate change in our daily lives as we slogged ...
On the 5th anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, America’s leaders need to embrace the accord’s goals
By Yoca Arditi-Rocha, Executive Director, The CLEO Institute December 12 marks the five-year anniversary of the world coming together to ...
Florida needs long-term leadership to tackle chronic flooding
By Daniel A. Perez, Florida House member When our community faces a challenge, we must understand it and face it ...
Republican leaders say Florida must prepare for sea-level rise
By Chris Sprowls and Wilton Simpson Throughout our history, Floridians have reveled in our state’s natural resources. With our miles ...
Turkey Point Is About To Get A New Pollution Permit. Critics Say Not So Fast
By Jenny Staletovich, WLRN Media Opposition is mounting to a proposed pollution permit that would, for the first time, allow ...
The water level in Lake Okeechobee is low because there’s been little rain and farmers continue to get a lot of water for irrigation
By Maggy Hurchalla, environmental activist The assertion that Republican U.S. Rep. Brian Mast has forced the U.S. Army Corps of ...