By Curtis Morgan
Related editorial: Boats, cars take high toll on Florida's creatures
Florida's big chill stuns sea turtles, send manatees in search of balmy waters
The Associated Press
Tragic year in Florida for panthers
Florida Today
Wading bird population soars in 2009
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Navy faces lawsuit over submarine training range near Jacksonville
Orlando Sentinel
Court records reveal trouble at Turkey Point
Miami Herald
Florida officials look at bag ban
Tallahassee Democrat
Historic Everglades restoration project starts in Picayune Strand
Naples News
Everglades Coalition conference to discuss restoration
Miami Herald
By Jim Waymer
Florida Today
THE BIG OIL ROUNDUP
The Big Oil roundup: news and information about Big Oil’s push to rig Florida’s coastline for the week ending 1-8-10:
By Jeremy Wallace
A group that stands to have considerable influence over the future of oil drilling off the Florida coast is unlikely to present its findings to the Legislature until the first week of March.
By Scott Maddox
I am strongly opposed to allowing near-shore drilling for oil off Florida’s coast. In coming to this conclusion, I considered several questions.
By John Kennedy
Florida Energy Associates, the group spearheading the effort to open the state’s Gulf waters to offshore oil-drilling, is scaling back its once dominant presence at the state Capitol.
By David DeCamp
Southern Strategy Group, the influential lobbying firm based in Tallahassee, has lost a bid to be Pinellas County's consultant for its latest charter review.
By Jane Brickley
Mike Mullins, chairman of the Captiva Erosion Prevention District received a standing ovation from the audience last Tuesday after he addressed the Lee County Legislative Delegation at Edison State College.
By Fraser Sherman
If the beauty of the Emerald Coast doesn't convince you to oppose oil drilling, South Walton's David Rauschkolb says, think of the beauty of the Emerald Coast economy.
By Jeremy Wallace
One of the U.S. Senate’s most vocal pro-oil drilling Democrats has announced he’s retiring and won’t see re-election in 2010.
Editorial
Would legislators take notice if tens of thousands of Floridians joined hands on Feb. 13 to protect Florida's beaches? We hope so, right now they only seem to be taking notice of Big Oil's money and influence.
Editorial
Floridians and their legislators have had many reasons to be skeptical since proposals surfaced rapidly to open near-shore waters to exploration and drilling for oil.
Write Your State Senator: Big Oil's Promises Are "Empty"
Help Drill for Solutions Not for Oil, via Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
Contact Your Officials About New Drilling Off Florida's Coasts, via Civic Concern.
Write a letter to the editor, via Audubon of Florida.
Urge Senate President Jeff Atwater to oppose offshore oil drilling, via Progress Florida.
Sign the petition against oil drilling, via Protect Florida’s Beaches.
Tell new Senator LeMieux to Repower America, via Environment Florida.
Related action: Keep oil drilling out of climate change legislation, via Oceana.
Hands Across The Sand website; their Twitter page is here.
Protect Florida’s Beaches on Facebook.
Don’t Drill Florida website.
Save Our Shores Florida website; their Twitter page is here.
Environment Florida offshore drilling page.
Skytruth blog, an excellent source of info.
Eye-opening map of oil and gas leases and infrastructure in Gulf of Mexico, via MMS.
MORE GREEN NEWS
By Kevin Spear
Biologist Lawrence Glenn knows how to sell the concept of spending $1 billion to bring the Kissimmee River and its wetlands back from the dead.
By Andy Reid
Flying low over the southern shore of Lake Okeechobee, Everglades advocates look out the window and visualize the time before sugar cane fields and cities blocked the life-giving flow of lake water that once drifted slowly south.
The Associated Press
Officials from the Obama Administration plan a visit to Florida this week for events related to ongoing Everglades restoration.
By Bruce Ritchie
Alabama, Florida and Georgia have agreed to at least one issue in their dispute over water -- that their talks on a water agreement should remain confidential.
By Dinah Voyles Pulver
When two local officials proposed preserving a wildlife corridor through the center of Volusia and Flagler counties in 1998, it seemed to some an impossible dream.
By Marcia Lane
A week of cold weather isn't discouraging the annual North Atlantic right whale migration to Florida; in fact, the mammals couldn't be happier.
The Associated Press
Ninety-three sea turtles found floating in the Mosquito Lagoon along Florida's Atlantic coast were rescued after the cold water shocked their tropically inclined systems.
Staff Report
Animal rights activists say they disagree with the dismissal of a lawsuit against a Florida-based circus by a federal judge this week.
By Mary Ellen Klas
The Florida Public Service Commission said Tuesday it is looking into anonymous allegations that Florida Power & Light's parent company took an estimated $1 billion in tax credits -- and didn't pass the savings on to customers.
By Dara Kam
Public Service Commission Chairwoman Nancy Argenziano, who earned a reputation as a maverick lawmaker unwilling to cede to leaders' demands, took over as head of the regulatory panel today in advance of a decision on Florida Power & Light Co.'s requested $1.2 billion-a-year rate hike.
The Associated Press
Georgia, Alabama and Florida have asked a judge to keep their negotiations in the long-running regional legal fight over water rights confidential.
Editorial
Boat propellers have sliced up underwater sea grass beds all around Florida, impairing the environment needed to nurture marine wildlife.
By Paul Quinlan
If there was any doubt that U.S. Sugar Corp. was worth as much as its brass claimed, those doubts dissipated in June 2008 when Gov. Charlie Crist unveiled his extraordinary, $1.75 billion bid to buy the company and its land to restore the Everglades.
DEP says incineration, innovation can help reach 75-percent recycling goal
FloridaEnvironments.com
Florida report wants deposits on bottles, business recycling
Florida Times-Union
SRWMD purchases 6,350 acres for water conservation
Gainesville Sun
Tests find antibiotic, other contaminants in Tampa's drinking water
Tampa Tribune
Seize the sunshine, save the environment
Miami Herald
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