manateesfreeNOAH In: Feds Dragging Their Feet on a Plan to Feed Starving Florida Manatees | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Feds Dragging Their Feet on a Plan to Feed Starving Florida Manatees

  This is why I love the columns of Craig Pittman. A TV news station has the headline “Manatees are starving in Florida. Wildlife agencies are scrambling to save them,” |but Craig tells it like […]

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jacksonvillecreativecommonswiki In: Growing Pains: Florida’s Population Boom Is Impacting the State’s Waterways | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Growing Pains: Florida’s Population Boom Is Impacting the State’s Waterways

    Hardly news but worth repeating,  we will say again we know the sources but when we throw money at this problem, we make sure it misses the big polluters. Read the original article […]

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COP26 Logo2 In: Report Examines ‘Net Zero’ Climate Strategies, Finds Corporate Plans Lacking in Lead up to COP26 | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Report Examines ‘Net Zero’ Climate Strategies, Finds Corporate Plans Lacking in Lead up to COP26

The kicking and screaming (and lying) that goes on by the world polluters. Read the complete report here at DeSmog. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a life: once […]

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turtle tumor3 In: Indian River Lagoon turtles are covered with tumors. New research points to water quality--- | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Indian River Lagoon turtles are covered with tumors. New research points to water quality—

This is a scary follow-up of yesterday’s post on manatee starvation, caused by a lack of food due to water pollution.  Not only do we have manatees dying because of pollution, we have sick turtles […]

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desantis scott rubio In: Florida manatee deaths soar as polluted water kills seagrass | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Florida manatee deaths soar as polluted water kills seagrass

  This article serves as a continuation and progression of the problem.  Up to now it appears that our anti-environment governor plans to just let the manatees die.  His comment is: “We have a lot […]

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RedTide HillsCo depComm public In: Hillsborough, Port Tampa Bay, Water Utility Seek Link Between Piney Point and Red Tide | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Hillsborough, Port Tampa Bay, Water Utility Seek Link Between Piney Point and Red Tide

“there is a preponderance of evidence, circumstantial evidence,” [that  red tide is exacerbated by Piney Point’s polluted waters.] Knowing this is true, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection still has as their only solution to […]

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gulf of mexicopubdomain In: Venice City Council approves letter urging more study of Ocean Era aquaculture permit | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Venice City Council approves letter urging more study of Ocean Era aquaculture permit

This ill-conceived project should be nipped in the bud because if approved it will open the door for a flood of further pollution and deterioration of the Gulf of Mexico, long the dumping ground of […]

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