What We Could Do If We Wanted To
Why is this so difficult? Is it because our greedy utility companies see lost money they think they should have? Why should Florida Power & Light run our state? Why does common sense not register […]
SAY NO TO OFFSHORE DRILLING– HERE’S HOW
The following was distributed by Sierra Club. We have a short time to send in comments, please do so soon. It’s super fast and painless. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum.jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org– A river is like […]
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 […]
OSFR Newsletter Quoted In News
Nice to see OSFR quoted by newscasters regarding environmental issues instead of the go-to guy Audubon, just for a change. Also nice to see news people reading our website. Not so nice to see […]
New Road Through This Florida State Forest Is an Idea Going the Wrong Way
Another of our state agencies, the Florida Department of Transportation wants to destroy rural Florida. Nothing in Florida is not for sale. Read the original article with photos here at Florida Phoenix. Comments by OSFR […]
Alachua County Needs an Environmental Champion to Stop Destructive Development
The usual greed coming from developers and the weaknesses of our too-often spineless leaders are now exacerbated by the soon-to-arrive influx of coastal residents displaced by rising seas. Development has always been a Florida problem […]
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 […]
The Sunshine State Is Becoming the Climate Emergency State
Of course, Florida has at least two environmental emergencies, climate change and the rapid disappearance of clean groundwater. By substituting “water” for “climate” in the quotes from the following article we see that we can […]
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