Want clean water? Follow the money
Yep, money. Big Sugar has enough that they give to all candidates who have a chance to get elected. That way their backsides are covered no matter what and they get stable (high) sugar prices […]
Heavy rains during hurricane season increase the chance of gypsum stack spills.
ManaSota-88, Inc. a 501.c3 Public Health and Environmental Organization has sent the following post. This is not an idle warning, as we remember the spills from the huge gypstack at the mouth of […]
Don’t by-pass the Army Corps
This is a plan by developers to fast track their projects because it would remove the Army Corps from any oversight and let the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) run wild and fill […]
Band-Aids aren’t enough
The following letter by John Moran appeared in the Gainesville Sun today, March 10, 2020. We chose not to print the op-ed by the former SRWMD employee because it is obviously too biased to present […]
Stop letting Florida agriculture dictate clean-water policy | Editorial
Drs. Bob Knight and Bob Palmer are quoted here. Agriculture is the Golden Boy in Florida and has yet to recognize its part in the solution which must and will come. No one wants to […]
DEP Letter to Chemours Listing Violations
The following letter is self-explanatory. We see that Chemours runs a very loose and sloppy ship. Remember, they are messing with our drinking water and our life-sustaining planet and they are careless. What they care […]
If a Little is Good, More Must be Better, Right?
The following reminds us of the July, 2016 meeting where the DEP tried so hard for hours to convince a rational and intelligent public that it was fine to increase toxins and carcinogens in our […]
Our Wetlands In Danger — Defeat SB 1402 and HB 7043.
We have seen so much evidence that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection leans heavily in favor of industry at the expense of our environment, that we can only conclude that these bills would […]
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