Dozens of civic groups and businesses simultaneously gathered in front of the district offices of Florida Senate President Andy Gardiner and House Speaker Crisafulli and Glen Springs to ask for leadership to strengthen water legislation […]
The following is an email sent to our president describing the recent river clean-up organized by Wayne Kinard of Amigos Dive Center of Fort White. OSFR members who participated are President Pam Smith and board […]
JOIN US AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT! PRESS ADVISORY: December 9 press events to ask Senate President Gardiner, House Speaker Crisafulli for clean water fix Posted: 05 Dec 2015 07:32 AM PST FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Cris […]
Disappointment reigned in Tallahassee today when the Agriculture and Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee met to debate and vote on HB 191, the bill written by the petroleum industry to promote fracking. So confident were the […]
The climate is in the news. Yes, it has been since the water dried up in California and the tide began washing the streets of Miami. But now even more, as countries from around the […]
The Gainesville Sun has published an editorial Nov. 25 about the inexplicable actions of the DEP. Even more strange is the fact that the state has already spent millions on restoring this spring, and […]
Unwanted Chicken Farm Prompts Land Regulation, Environmental Concerns By Shayna Tanen November 24, 2015 Environment One month after a controversial chicken farm was brought to the attention of Columbia County commissioners, residents are still waiting […]
OSFR Policy Director Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson speaks out on WCJBTV about the chicken factory being constructed near Fort White. There were already many concerns that it is situated atop the Floridan aquifer in a high […]
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