What does the Florida Commission on Ethics do?
What does the Commission on Ethics do? Apparently not much when they focus on water management board members. We recall the stinky, smelly case of John Miklos of St. Johns River Water Management […]
DeSantis Gives Can a Mighty Kick Down The Road
Every taxpayer in Florida should write their governor and complain that he is absolutely wasting their money. The algae in the big lake has been studied to death, even by its very own task force, […]
We Are Losing Our Beaches Slowly But Surely
Photo from Wikipedia with link to license here: GNU Free Documentation License Florida’s waters are becoming one large cesspool with a clean beach to swim in less and less likely to be found. Rain runoff […]
MFL Peer Review Committee Still Finds problems
The Minimum Flows and Levels (MFLs) Peer Review Committee convened on July 28 for a discussion of the first draft revision of the Suwannee River Water Management District’s MFL plan. The committee is composed […]
Georgia Power grants funds to WWALS for Water Quality Testing
During the long siege of pollution coming down the Suwannee River from Georgia, it was discovered that our governmental agencies (health and environmental, both in Georgia and Florida) were doing inadequate testing in the river. […]
Trans Mountain Pipeline’s Lead Insurer Zurich Drops Coverage
Pounding in another nail in the coffin of fossil fuels, this proposed pipeline has hit the obstacle of being dropped by its insurer, good news for renewable energy. Last fall, insurance companies began dropping […]
Is a big phosphate company using legal tactics to scare FL environmentalists?
Craig Pittman is airing some dirty laundry here that has been aired before, but the way industry aided by our governor and our Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is legally killing our environment and polluting […]
Multiple blooms, multiple toxins, multiple worries: New study sheds light on 2018’s disastrous algae crisis in Florida
Not just in South Florida, toxic algae can be found in the northern part of the state, including in the Santa Fe River. Toxic Cyanobacteria was first identified in the Santa Fe by OSFR board […]
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