We Must Identify Election-day Environmentalists
* One of our most important tasks as advocates for a healthy environment is to elect better leaders who are in the position to enforce and make environmental laws. Unfortunately, this is a slow […]
Springs spending spree doesn’t fix problem
The article below, by OSFR advisor Dr. Robert Knight, was published in the Gainesville Sun. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. -A river is like a life: once taken, it cannot be brought back- […]
Columbia County Legislative Delegation Meeting
The Columbia County Legislative Delegation Meeting took place today at Florida Gateway College, with Sen. Rob Bradley and Rep. Elizabeth Porter presiding. Most of the county governing bodies were present as well as the […]
Bradley requests $100M a year for Florida Forever
Bradley’s press release can be seen at this link, and here is another view from A.G. Gancarski. Bradley requests $100M a year for Florida Forever By JIM TURNER The News Ser vice of […]
Will legislators finally start preserving Florida’s land, as the Constitution requires?
Today in the Tampa Bay Times, Manley Fuller has written an important article about our legislators’ use of public funds. So rare to see a lawmaker who tries to follow the will of his […]
Woeful Lack of Leadership From Putnam, Caldwell, Crisafulli and Gardiner
An honor code for polluting farms? Just what our waterways and Everglades needed. Floridians can “thank” four men – Ag Comm. Adam Putnam, Rep. Matt Caldwell, Rep. Steve Crisafulli and Sen. Andy Gardiner – […]
State bill requests $125 million to help springs, St. Johns River
* On August 23, 2017 Cindy Swirko of the Gainesville Sun has written the following article about the allocation of funds for springs and the St. Johns River. This is welcome news, but we take […]
Okeechobee Over Limits For Microcystin
Pollution Online reports the following for us to consider: 815 parts per billion of the toxin microcystin are now in Lake O. World Health Organization puts the limit a 10 per billion Last year the […]
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