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Let the water flow!

Tamiami Trail (US highway 41) cuts through Shark River Slough, one of the Everglades’ deepest and most important water passageways. Scientists say this 11-mile section of the 1928 road must be elevated into a “skyway” if Everglades restoration is to succeed.

Learn more about what the Sierra Club is doing to restore flow to the the River of Grass at www.buildtheskyway.com

 

 

Florida Hometown Democracy

The only way to stop the destruction of Florida's future is to put the voters in charge of their hometown land use plans, it's that simple.  Do your part to take back Florida's future.  Sign the petition today if you are a registered Florida voter… mail it in…and send us more petitions.  Florida's future will thank you.

In The News

Biologists: Agency ignored reports on FPL plant

Florida wildlife conservation officials ignored concerns of two state scientists who predicted a new power plant would harm animals in an environmentally sensitive area, the scientists testified Monday in federal court.

Will reality zap fantasy?

It sounded too good to be true: a garbage zapper that would vaporize everything from old truck tires to hurricane debris, reducing 500 tons of trash to a shiny black rock smaller than a paper clip. The process, promoted by a company called Geoplasma, would generate enough electricity to run the plant and more to sell.

 

Accelerate pace of Everglades restoration

Below are excerpts from The National Academies' report "Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades" released on Monday.

 

Nuclear energy is not renewable energy, PSC staff says

Florida Power & Light's effort to persuade regulators that nuclear power is a renewable energy suffered a blow Thursday when the staff of Florida's Public Service Commission recommended against including nuclear in the state's portfolio of green energy.

 

Florida tourism officials wrestle with drilling

Florida's biggest business is struggling with a question that was once heresy: Can a beach-based tourism industry and offshore oil drilling live side by side?

 

WATER WARS: Hearing begins on tapping St. Johns

Lawyers air arguments on river withdrawals in Central Florida.

 

 

Mosaic Threatens Manatee County With Lawsuit

Florida mining giant Mosaic Fertilizer said Monday it will file a $618 million lawsuit against Manatee County unless commissioners reverse a Sept. 16 vote that denied permission for Mosaic to mine phosphate on a property in Duette.

 

Dr. Robert L. Knight: Saving Silver Springs can’t wait forever

I first visited Silver Springs in August 1953. I was only 5 years old and little did I know that a three-year landmark ecological study was under way under the direction of a new, young professor at the University of Florida named Howard T. Odum.

 

Report: Everglades in decline as restoration lags

A multibillion-dollar effort to restore Florida's Everglades has made little progress amid funding shortfalls, bureaucratic red tape and disagreements, according to a congressionally mandated report that warns the vast wetland is in peril.

 

Fixing Florida's Beach Erosion Is Expensive

Sand Trap: Another storm, another round of beach erosion, another round of questions about renourishment.

 

Alligator Alley plan concerns senators

Concerned that the state is rushing to sell off key assets, two senators have demanded that the Florida Transportation Department turn over documents connected with the decision to privatize Alligator Alley.

 

Little agreement at 'water congress' on how to conserve

Water wars like the fight over St. Johns River withdrawals will only grow unless Florida learns to manage its water better, experts and policymakers meeting Thursday said.