Help Stop This Get-Rich Scheme
You don’t have to be a Sumter County resident to oppose this unnecessary new road. The whole plan of new toll roads was not conceived by the Department of Transportation and not because of need, […]
GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT? No, a Bald Faced Lie
FLORIDA PHOSPHATE INIATIATIVE PHOSPHOGYPSUM DANGERS A new post has often popped up on FaceBook lately—it is Phosphate Innovation Initiative — and it is full of lies and half-truths. Lies, because […]
One More Problem Caused By Our Pollution
Both red tide and seasonal Sargassum are natural occurring phenomena and both are exacerbated by human activity which is mostly excessive nutrients in water. Now this seaweed is becoming more abundant and toxic, […]
Trying to Trick Mother Nature
We have posted multiple times on this ill-conceived project. We say ill-conceived because water that is moved from point A to point B, will be missed at point A. We explain the simple cause of […]
William McQuilkin: Restoring the Ocklawaha River Makes Good Business Sense, Too
One would have to dig deep into the barrel to find a good reason to overrule the legion of reasons to get rid of the Rodman Dam on the Ocklawaha. The other necessary action to […]
Write Plain-English Rules to Save Florida’s Natural Springs | Editorial
The 2016 bill referred to below was the Florida Springs and Aquifer Protection Act and highly touted by legislators and Tallahassee decision makers, but not by environmentalists as said by David Simmons in this article: […]
Using Pollution to Make More Pollution and Spending Millions Doing It.
The title here is “Algae to Fertilizer” which should be : “Algae to Fertilizer to More Algae.” This is rather incredible but here in Florida we are used to it. We have a serious water […]
Dangerous ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Florida Oysters: Study
We are slowly poisoning our food and water throughout the planet. Our EPA is reacting but not nearly fast enough. Read the original article with photos here in Newsweek. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. […]
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