LegislatorsTackle the Tide
The story continues, money spent, plans devised to treat symptoms, and the problem is not fixed and no one wants to address the causes. Play that violin. Play the same song. The “tackle” that […]
Hillsborough, Port Tampa Bay, Water Utility Seek Link Between Piney Point and Red Tide
“there is a preponderance of evidence, circumstantial evidence,” [that red tide is exacerbated by Piney Point’s polluted waters.] Knowing this is true, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection still has as their only solution to […]
Guest Opinion: Connecting the Dots for Restoring Florida’s Waters
Once again this is about Tallahassee taking away the citizens’ rights and the DEP as a destructive agency for our waters. This is about the DEP very carefully avoiding hitting the sources of pollution and […]
“Save the Soul of the Santa Fe River” Benefit Concert – September 11th
Fight the Water Bottling Permit at Heartwood Soundstage Saturday, September 11th, 2021, the Florida Springs Council (FSC) will host an outdoor benefit concert called “Save the Soul of the Santa Fe River” at Heartwood Soundstage, […]
Close the Piney Point Site for Good
We have mentioned the irony here as our Department of Environmental Protection is suing the Piney Point owners for the very thing they themselves are guilty of. The incompetence and malfeasance of our DEP […]
Press Release: Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist Endorses Right to Clean Water Constitutional Amendment
Would that all the gubernatorial candidates follow suit here. More and more Florida citizens are clamoring for environmental protection of our springs and rivers– something in which our agencies are failing. As more people […]
Legislature’s Attempt to Thwart Amendments Flounders in Court
The unfortunate trend in Tallahassee is to take power from the people and put it in the state government. Happily, Judge Windsor, as seen below, ruled against DeSantis and those who would make it harder […]
Newark is Not Valdosta
Two years after Newark became the scene of one of the worst environmental disasters to strike an American city in decades, nearly all its 23,000 lead service lines, which had tainted the drinking water, […]
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