Intense corn, wheat and soybean production in the Midwest has caused huge amounts of fertilizer to be carried down the streams and rivers to the Mississippi, and also to enter the groundwater. Excess nitrates are […]
All this hub-bub simply because the State of Florida refuses to keep its waters clean enough for manatees to live in them. Pollution is far outgaining environment restoration. The feds are not the only […]
Carbon and methane are bad enough, but the meat industry is not sustainable in just the water it takes to produce feed for the animals. The globe is rapidly running out of water for drinking […]
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOS) are the point source of huge amounts of pollution and are part of the problems of heavy animal-based protein diets we find in the United States. Agricultural activities needed […]
That the BMAPS as our DEP have written them have no hope of success is disputed by no one. The DEP is fully aware and has admitted that they will fail. This stonewalling by […]
Now we see that Ocean Era is changing its tune and is employing an old trick of phosphate miners: applying for a permit and then requesting a “modification.” Kind of reminds us of the old […]
Pardon us if we don’t hold out much hope for this sham agency devised by DeSantis as a ploy to trick people into thinking he is actually interested in solving our water problems when […]
Thanks to Betty Johnson for the link to this DEP meeting. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a life: once taken, it cannot be brought back © Jim Tatum […]
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