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 […]
Fla. Sues Piney Point for Leak — Fla. Is the One Who Should Be Sued.
We believe that HRK Holdings, current caretaker of Piney Point, should be sued for damage the gypstack has done. But it seems an incredible bit of irony that the Department of Environmental Protection has […]
Nikki Fried, Michele Rayner-Goolsby Roll Out Clean Water Initiative
We have been skeptical of Nikki Fried’s latest advocacy of clean water as possible political campaign hype but the presence here of Center for Biological Diversity director Jaclyn Lopez gives her claims an added note […]
Biden Administration Undoes Trump Gypsum Road Use Decision
Thank goodness once in a while we see some common sense in our leaders, but again, these are not water managers. Evidently the phosphate industry was not pushing hard for this, and it just went […]
Environmentalists File Federal Lawsuit in Piney Point Disaster–
Who has been remiss in the Piney Point mess? Plenty of people and especially the Department of Environmental Protection. And one more time, the DEP. And we could ask also, why did Manatee County allow […]
Hazardous Waste Being Mixed into Roads
This needs to be banned everywhere and a good place to start is Columbia County and all counties through which the Sant Fe River flows. We cannot imagine any county allowing this material on […]
Fate of planned mine near swamp left to Georgia agency
We can only hope the State of Georgia has the wisdom to deny this questionable mining company a permit to put this environmental treasure at risk. The risk is great for very little […]
FL allowing mining of state-owned wetlands has a certain smell to it
Craig Pittman explores the seedy saga of Chemours mining operations in Northeast Florida and exposes some of the dirty goings-on which continue to occur. Just one more example of our DEP supporting a polluting […]
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