Manatees Need Our Protection … From Us
What we would have liked to have seen in this carefully-worded-not-to-offend editorial is a call for funding to stop the pollution points that are killing the manatee food and thus the manatees. Funding is […]
The First Rights of Nature Case Goes to Tribal Court-The Case for Manoomin (Wild Rice).
The sad situation in Florida today is that we do not have enough responsible leaders to protect our springs, rivers and aquifer. This includes our governor, DEP, water district managers, legislators and judges, most of […]
Gov. Desantis Pushes for $3b Investment in Water Quality by End of His First Term
Once again DeSantis is bragging about the amount of money he is spending on fixing our water. Once again we express some doubt as to what he will accomplish. Once again we point out […]
U.S. To Sharply Cut Methane Pollution That Threatens The Climate And Public Health
The news here sounds very good, and we can only hope these goals are met sooner rather than later. Read the original article here in Oil and Gas Online Newsletter. Comments by OSFR historian Jim […]
Additional Threat to Manatees — Glysophate
Dr. Robert Knight of the Florida Springs Institute has sent the following email. It seems that on top of the manatees’ current woes of starvation and pollution, we have learned that now we are threatening […]
Opponents of Ocklawaha River Restoration Are Citing Studies Out of Context
These two authors, much more qualified than their critics, are writing to correct the misinformation in the full-page ad in the Sun, placed by members of Save Rodman Reservoir. Read the complete article here in […]
Desantis Announces $481 Million in Awards for Water Quality Projects Across Florida
Author: 10 Tampa Bay Published: 10:50 PM EST November 9, 2021 Updated: 10:50 PM EST November 9, 2021 Mr. DeSantis’ 700,000 pounds of reduced nitrogen will certainly not make a big difference, it is […]
A Depleted Aquifer Stymied Plans for a Stronach Ranch, Until a Florida Governor Intervened
Stronach, now 89 years old, was active in the Austrian Parliment as recently as 2014. This seems to be an obvious case of money opening doors. Here it even got the St Johns River […]
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