Environmental fight brewing over rock mining push on former Everglades land
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Crist restocks water board with backers of his Everglades restoration plan
Palm Beach Post
Florida Springs Day Takes Over Capitol Courtyard!
Springs advocates from across Florida converged on the Capitol courtyard last Tuesday to call on the Florida Legislature to pass meaningful springs protection legislation this year.
By Alexis Diao
Some local environmentalists spent their Saturday morning picking up trash in the Fred George Basin, a sources for Tallahassee's drinking wells. The basin's clean-up is one of ten events throughout the state collectively called "Take a Hike, Florida."
By Sean Kinane
In his budget request for the current year, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has included funding for the purchase of environmentally sensitive lands through a program called Florida Forever.
By Heather Biance
Americans produce 160-million tons of garbage each year,which is enough to fill 11-million garbage trucks.
The Associated Press
Wildlife officials are working to rescue distressed manatees across the state.
By Eric Staats
Fans of Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary have always viewed its towering cypress forest and long vistas of wet prairie to be world-class.
A clearing in Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.
The Big Oil roundup: news and information about Big Oil’s push to rig Florida’s coastline for the week ending 2-26-10:
By Tony Plakas
The unctuous Sarah Palin recently surfaced in Florida on a national tour like an unwanted oil spill, spewing her slippery nonsense to thousands of race fans at the Daytona International Speedway.
By Melissa Nelson
The Florida House last year voted to allow exploration for oil and natural gas in state waters, but the Senate didn't bring it up for a vote. This year the issue may not come up for a vote at all - but it will still weigh heavy in the upcoming session's background.
By Lindsay Ubinas
Florida legislators agree that offshore oil drilling is an important issue but they still might not tackle it during their upcoming session.
By Bruce Ritchie
A state panel's draft report issued today takes on the major questions and concerns about allowing oil drilling off Florida's coastline.
By Heidi Lux
Hands Across the Sand, a statewide, peaceful protest against offshore drilling, was held throughout Florida's beaches on February 13th.
Staff Report
State Rep. Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton: “Offshore drilling? I oppose it. Although there are ebbs and flows from a public perspective, there are better ways to address it than to put at risk our coastline.”
Love tourists, not drilling banner flying high over St. Petersburg Beach during Hands Across the Sand event, February 13, 2010.
MORE ONLINE ACTIONS
Pass a Resolution To Protect Florida's Beaches Now, via Audubon of Florida.
Urge President Obama’s Ocean Policy Task Force to recommend against offshore drilling within any previously protected coastal waters, via Defenders of Wildlife.
Tell Obama: Offshore Drilling is NOT the Answer to Energy Crisis, via Oceana.
Help Drill for Solutions Not for Oil, via Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
Let us decide! Petition to Governor Charlie Crist, Senate President Jeff Atwater, and House Speaker Larry Cretul, via Civic Concern.
Contact Your Officials About New Drilling Off Florida's Coasts, via Civic Concern.
Ask your state legislators to keep the rigs out, via Save the Manatee Club.
Write a letter to the editor, via Audubon of Florida.
Write your state legislators, via Audubon of Florida.
Urge Senate President Jeff Atwater to oppose offshore oil drilling, via Progress Florida.
Tell Sen. Atwater Not To Allow Oil Drilling In Special Session, via Audubon of Florida.
Sign the petition against oil drilling, via Protect Florida’s Beaches.
Tell Salazar: No drilling off Florida's Coast, via Environment Florida.
Tell new Senator LeMieux to Repower America, via Environment Florida.
Related action: Don't go drill crazy in the Everglades, via Center for Biological Diversity.
Related action: Keep oil drilling out of climate change legislation, via Oceana.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES OF NOTE
Hands Across The Sand website; their Twitter page is here.
Protect Florida’s Beaches, recently launched coalition website.
Protect Florida’s Beaches on Facebook.
Think, Baby, Think blog via Protect Florida’s Beaches.
Don’t Drill Florida website.
Don’t Drill Florida Facebook page.
Save Our Shores Florida website; their Twitter page is here.
Save Our Shores Florida Facebook page.
Florida Coastal and Ocean Coalition website.
Environment Florida offshore drilling page.
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy offshore drilling page.
Skytruth blog, an excellent source of info.
Not the Answer blog, courtesy Surfrider Foundation.
Eye-opening map of oil and gas leases and infrastructure in Gulf of Mexico, via MMS.
EnergyFLA.com, online hub of drilling proponents; their Twitter page is here.
Rep. Murzin slams Pelham again, backs off
FloridaEnvironments.com
Volunteers find more murky water near airport site
Panama City News Herald
Boaters warned off whale encounters
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Run-Ins With Endangered Right Whales Becoming Too Common
Central Florida News 13
Fishermen enlist members of Congress to oppose red snapper ban
Orlando Sentinel
Environmental group hopes to extend deadline for Everglades restoration project
TC Palm
St. Johns district looks to strengthen water reuse programs
Ocala Star-Banner
By Lesley Blackner
Orlando Sentinel
Are Volusia and Brevard county commissioners Stepford wives or Stockholm-syndrome victims?
By Adam C. Smith
Julie Hauserman, former reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, Tallahassee Democrat and Stuart News, has been named campaign manager for Florida Hometown Democracy, Constitutional Amendment 4 on the November ballot.
By Tom Palmer
Julie Hauserman has been hired to head the campaign to get voter approval for Amendment 4, the Florida Hometown Democracy measure, the St. Pete Times Political Buzz reports.
By Kevin Lollar
Almost 900 manatees have turned the Orange River into a cold-water marine-mammal traffic jam.
By Tom Palmer
A little more than a year ago, a daring experiment began.
By Tom Palmer
The marsh ahead of the boat was a sea of white.
By Jordan Kahn
Because of new laws, small businesses are reeling, the federal government is being sued and a legislative fight is entering round two. And this isn't about health care or Wall Street bailouts.
By Mark Matthews
Seven Florida Democrats in Congress earned a perfect score from environmentalists in an annual scorecard released this morning that rated lawmakers for 2009 votes that included the American Clean Energy and Security Act and as well as the controversial $787 billion stimulus bill.
By Bruce Ritchie
Rules meetings and workshops -- they sound boring.
By Rick Neale
Encroached by towering condominiums, Ms. Apples Crab Shack, Doc's Bait House and future fisheries at Blue Crab Cove are now considerably closer to perpetual preservation.
By Tyler Jett
Eric Thompson looked down, his white Nike shoes barely safe from the mud.
By Joan Murray
For the first time in almost 40 years, bald eagles are making their home in a county famous for snowbirds.
By Kate Spinner
Charter captains, bait shops and commercial fishing fleets from Key West to Puget Sound are losing jobs and money as sweeping restrictions on dozens of fish take effect nationwide, based on data that regulators know is inaccurate.
By Susan Cocking
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Monday announced a special hunting season targeting Burmese pythons on state lands in South Florida March 8 through April 17.
By Bruce Ritchie
In advance of a protest in Washington by recreational and commercial fishermen, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson said today he will file legislation to address red snapper fishing restrictions.
By Sherry Boas
On a recent morning, two wood storks were trolling for food in the recently submerged shoreline.
By Charles H. Bronson
As Florida's agriculture and consumer services commissioner, one of my proudest achievements is Florida's status as a leader in the biofuel industry.
Editorial
Imagine the outcry from animal activists if the state decided to regulate dog fighting instead of banning the barbaric practice like it rightly has done for decades.
Editorial
Nailing down the details on planned protections for black bear habitat shouldn't be superseded by private sector interests pitching a high-end resort and residential community in Aripeka.
Editorial
Since the state of Florida dawdled for more than a decade over a federal mandate to set limits on farm and urban runoff and water pollution, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stepped in with proposed regulations last month.
Editorial
Once a mermaid, Barbara Wynn became a militant.
Editorial
More than two-thirds of the nation's land mass had snow on the ground when the day dawned, and then it snowed ever so slightly in Florida to make it 49 states out of 50.
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