5 Environmental Triumphs Over Trump in 2017
* EchoWatch has listed 5 triumphs for the environment that have occurred in spite of Trump. Some might be embarrassing. Can one be embarrassed if one has no shame? Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. […]
USDA Caves In To Big Poultry — Help Stop This Injustice
Another example of big corporations bullying our government and getting their way. Please go to this link and leave your comments: https://www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/organic-livestock-and-poultry-practices. We have until January 17 to register our opinions. We must not throw out […]
Progressing Toward a Police State ——– Look For Some Florida Names
Non-violent resistance tactics used to stymie pipeline construction at Standing Rock last year could be in new legal jeopardy if lawmakers get their way. CREDIT: AP Photo/John L. Mone ThinkProgress has posted the following […]
Good News From the EPA
Pollution Online has passed on the following notice by the EPA which outlines this agency’s intent to further scrutinize potential health risks from chemicals. We urge you to follow the links and leave comments, even […]
Congressional Review of FERC Requested
The following press release calling for a Congressional review of FERC has been issued; ————————————————- For Immediate Release WWALS and 182 Organizations from 35 States Call for Congressional Review of FERC Hundreds of Nonprofit Organizations […]
Trust in the DEP to Protect the Santa Fe River — or the EPA?
The Gainesville Sun published an editorial Sunday, June 7, 2015 called “Gutting the EPA.” The theme of the article is about taking funds from the EPA and giving them to the individual states to use, […]
EPA Clarifies New Water Rules
The clarifications of the new EPA rules have met with mixed reactions as could be expected. The new rules were forthcoming after Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and 2006 left roughly 60 per cent of […]
Sierra Club Petitions EPA for Aquifer Protection
“…we continue to deplete, pollute and waste our water as if it is an inexhaustible and indestructible resource. It is neither inexhaustible nor indestructible.” This is written by the Sierra Club Florida, who has petitioned […]
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