The MFLs Are a License to Slowly Kill The Springs
That the State of Florida and our Suwannee River Water Management District have lost control of our water purity is manifest here by this press release. Reading between the lines we see that the […]
Suffering the Consequences of FDEP’s Failure & Incompetence
This story is about money. Largely due to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection allowing Piney Point to continue operations even when breaking the rules, we are seeing a ruined Tampa Bay after years of […]
Things May Be Bigger In Texas But Not Always Better
Pilgrims’s Pride does its damage in Florida also. For decades it has been dumping effluent into the Suwannee River north of Live Oak. They were successfully sued by environmental groups and fined in 2017, but […]
Hamilton Gets Low Grade In Job Performance
If the Florida Department of Environmental Protection isn’t protecting anyone but polluters, I think we know who should take the fall. It’s Hamilton, the guy that our guv put in charge. Craig Pittman […]
Piney Point Is a Case In Point
“Officials said in this instance the unease is misplaced.” The public has little reason to trust the officials, as they have deceived and failed to take proper precautions and failed to do their job. Piney […]
DEP Learns About the Santa Fe River
It was a fortuitous coincidence that Shawn Hamilton, Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection, wound up at Rum 138 in his search to purchase a new kayak. He had no idea that he was also visiting […]
55 Tons of Lettuce Fed to Florida’s Starving Manatees
The problem requires a long-term solution because pollution from agriculture, septic tanks, urban runoff and other sources is killing the seagrass on which the marine mammals rely. Yes, yes and yes. Agriculture, septic tanks, urban […]
‘A Job Incomplete’: Florida’s Statewide Climate Change Response Ignores Root Cause
This is about climate change but if you substitute Green Algae Task Force and water management districts (WMDs) for climate change, everything works out the same. Our task force and our WMDs hit only the […]
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