Great News For Florida Wetlands
The best news we have seen in a long time. Power-obsessed Florida legislators lately spend a great deal of their time trying to gain more power for themselves, usually at the expense of the […]
Report: Florida Received D- In Coastal Management and Sea Level Rise Preparations
Florida’s leadership on climate change started below the bottom when Rick Scott would not allow those dirty words “climate change” to be uttered, and non-environmentalist Gov. DeSantis likely considers the term “woke,” so we have […]
Lawsuit Launched Over EPA’s Oversight Failure on Dangerous Phosphate Mining Waste
The Center for Biological Diversity has sent out the following press release. Toxic phosphate mining residue has been a problem for over 100 years in Florida. The industry has been unable to find a solution […]
Georgia Has No Right to Put Okefenokee At Risk
Things do not look good for the Twin Pines mining threat near the Okefenokee Swamp, as the State of Georgia has issued draft permits for this mining. The Georgia Environmental Protection Division is depl0ying a […]
ACTION ALERT –PLEASE DO TODAY
The following is from the Florida Springs Council. Please help today to stop this stupid, harmful and nonsensical bill. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a life: once taken, […]
Development, Florida’s Greatest Threat Is Omnipresent
Some of our readers may recall the egregious actions regarding the Split Oaks development. What that shows is that no land in Florida is safe from developers, no matter how sacred or how many environmental […]
Good News From Tallahassee
Thanks to all who helped here, we have some good news. Thanks to OSFR board member Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson and member Hilda Gilcrist for attending this committee meeting. The following was sent out by the Florida […]
EPA and Mangroves
A few days ago we posted about the EPA allowing all mangroves to be destroyed at one site, and we wondered why. Well, now, thanks to Manasota-88 we see the (non)reason: “…the seawall was on […]
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