…bestseller Oh, Florida! How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country, which won a gold medal from the Florida Book Awards. His latest, published in 2021, is The…
Unexpected but much appreciated by OSFR was the Organization of the year award from the Florida Springs Council, given at the Springs Summit banquet. The award was directed to and…
…2021, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that nearly two-thirds of Lake Okeechobee, a 730 square miles freshwater body was blanketed in blue-green algae. This is shocking in…
…for 2021, many of them starving to death because of drastic seagrass losses due to water pollution, there was tremendous pressure from the public against this bad bill, and it…
…Vern Buchanan and Darren Soto for championing the Manatee Protection Act of 2021. The Act calls on Congress to reclassify the manatee as endangered. In 2017, the federal government unjustifiably…
…bad for us to ingest microplastics. A study published in December 2021 found that microplastics can kill cells at levels that exist in the environment. It followed other studies showing…
…request from the aptly named BS Ranch in Polk County to renew its permit to operate an organic waste facility. I wrote about the BS Ranch in January 2021 because…
…double minuses.” That bungled bill became law two years ago. There was time for the governor and lawmakers to fix it in 2021 — except they didn’t. And they didn’t…
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