Florida Does Not Protect Its Rivers
We have often written here pointing out that the State of Florida is allowing the Santa Fe River to decline in flow and purity. The State purports to be protecting the river when it establishes […]
No Approval Yet For Phosphogypsum In Our Roads
The latest on the use of phosphogypsum in our roadways is that Mosaic is waiting on the EPA for approval of this risky procedure. Scientists such as Dr. Xianming Shi of Washington State say […]
More Can-kicking to Delay the Issue; a Popular Florida Tactic
A popular delaying tactic to avoid action used by so called “leaders” is to request funds and time to “study” the issue, often to discover what is already known many times over. This has […]
Sorry History of Valdosta Sewage Mismanagement
As we understand it, Valdosta was not only lax in preventing sewage spills but was also remiss in monitoring contamination downstream. Thanks to John Quarterman and Merrillee Malwitz Jipson, finally the city began to inform […]
National Springs Heritage Area
Hopefully a federal designation would help protect the areas around the springs from those who would continue to destroy our unique water resources. Threats are presented by irrigators, water bottlers, septic tanks, some farm practices, […]
Bottled Water Most Concentrated Source for Microplastics Ingestion
Of all the negatives from bottled water, and they are many, a new one has emerged which may be among the most serious of all; ingesting microplastics. The following statement is from PNAS: […]
Politics, Sea Levels, Septics and Florida
We have written about Santa Fe River floods distributing E.coli bacteria from flooded septic tanks and this article reveals that rising seas are doing the same thing on a large scale along the coasts. The […]
More Information On PFAs
Of interest in the article below is the link to the Environmental Working Group”s (EWG) testing of home filters for the toxic PFAs. There is an abundance of conflicting information regarding filters and how well […]
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