Florida will do just about anything to protect the manatee except what needs to be done. Scientists know that what needs to be done is to reduce nutrients in the water by controlling agriculture, urban […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
As our toothless DEP has no stomach to take on agriculture, by far the biggest source of nutrient pollution in Florida, they are slowly and very slowly converting existing septic tanks to sewers. But at […]
Manatee County has more water pollution problems. Do they bring these problems on themselves? Yes, certainly they do to some extent. This is because they invite the destructive phosphate industry into their midst, while […]
We strongly criticize Florida’s water keepers for not doing their job, and with reason, but if we look around we see the same story repeated in our nation. Actually, around the world. But in the […]
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