Florida Springs Council Wins Appeal
Over a considerable time and effort since early in 2019, Our Santa Fe River persevered to bring attention and awareness to a multi-million-gallon daily water grab from Ginnie Springs. At the behest of OSFR, […]
TMDLs Are a License to Pollute
This meeting is about Total Maximum Daily Loads of pollutants allowed in our waterways. Since this rule makes a certain quantity legal, it amounts to a license to pollute. Thus industry is happy because the […]
Repair Lair; Fighting Back On Plastics
Now we are being faced with “fast fashion” as well as fast food. This is an issue that I had not considered before, even though I am only too aware that we live in a […]
Help Protect the Ichetucknee River
Lu Merritt of the Ichetucknee Alliance has sent out the following letter. Please help if you are able. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a life: once taken, it […]
Petition Against CAFOs to the EPA
OSFR has a long tradition of opposing CAFOs and also with working with Earthjustice. We fully support Earthjustice and this petition and proclaim that CAFOs are unethical and detrimental to our planet and its inhabitants, […]
NOAA Scientist Now Working Directly for Offshore Aquaculture Company
Readers who follow our posts will know that we have written multiple times about the dangers of aquaculture. Those who have investigated this unfortunate activity also know that just as mines will have accidents, aquaculture […]
Things May Be Bigger In Texas But Not Always Better
Pilgrims’s Pride does its damage in Florida also. For decades it has been dumping effluent into the Suwannee River north of Live Oak. They were successfully sued by environmental groups and fined in 2017, but […]
Administration Awards Gulf of Mexico Drilling Leases To Oil Giants
Politics is all about compromise, but sometimes what is given up hurts. In this case it more threat to the Gulf of Mexico. One would think that after Deepwater Horizon no one would even think […]
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