Orange County, like Alachua County, has several good things going for it as a model for environmental protections. Not the least of these are the elected representatives they send to Tallahassee [read Eskamani, Soto, etc.] […]
There is a reason that our DEP and our water management districts continually choose to protect industry instead of the environment, all the while pretending to do the opposite. That reason is explained here in […]
The EPA is finally beginning to act on the serious issue of these chemicals. As expressed below in the article, if these are only six of the fourteen thousand, it is a very slow beginning. […]
Michael McGrath of Sierra Club has sent out information about this important meeting in Gainesville on August 28, 2023. As we well know, we have to kick and punch the DEP to make it do […]
If the EPA hopes to achieve its goals of cleaner air, wishing for voluntary actions by the energy companies will not work. Power companies exist to make money and that is what drives […]
A similar legal challenge was brought in Florida but did not proceed to trial. This is a landmark ruling which moves our country forward in the march toward the inevitable switch away from coal and […]
It doesn’t happen often but our environment can be restored if we try hard enough.a Read Craig Pittman’s good article here in Florida Phoenix. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is […]
Ground-breaking news, but the protection rests on the will of those assigned the enforcement of those laws. Given Brazil’s history of rain forest protection, the future appears uncertain. Rights of nature are urgently needed […]
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