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On Tuesday VoteWater published our 2022 General Election Voter Guides, a definitive look at clean-water candidates (and not-so-clean-water candidates) in 15 key Florida counties. If you live in Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe,…
The environmental advocacy group VoteWater has released its 2022 General Election Voter Guide, designed to help voters in 15 Florida counties identify clean-water candidates. The guides, available at VoteWater.org/voter-guides, include endorsements for 11 candidates. Three of those endorsements were announced…
The nonpartisan clean-water group VoteWater has endorsed Democrat Charlie Crist for Florida Governor. Gil Smart, VoteWater Executive Director, said Crist’s support for acquiring more land south of Lake Okeechobee, his call to adopt all the recommendations of the state’s Blue-Green…
As the number of deaths attributed to Hurricane Ian continues to mount, the focus rightly remains on the storm’s human toll. Once the smoke clears, though, we may also find the environmental toll to be horrific. The path Ian took…
Republican Congressman Brian Mast and Lindsay Cross, Democratic candidate for Florida House District 60, were endorsed this week by the environmental advocacy group VoteWater. “Brian Mast has been an absolute warrior when it comes to clean-water issues on the Treasure…
Hurricane Ian was a monster, assaulting Florida’s west coast with winds of 150 mph and a cataclysmic storm surge. With rescuers struggling to reach those who tried to ride out the storm at home, we don’t yet know the human…
Don’t look now, but the fall election is just around the corner. And Florida’s powerful sugar industry is doing everything it can to guarantee that on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, the winner will be: Big Sugar. Since Jan. 1,…
The assault on rural Florida is intensifying. Florida counties all have comprehensive plans, roadmaps designed to shepherd development into areas that can handle it, and away from those that can’t — like rural Florida. But all that open rural acreage…
It’s annoying, unsightly and sometimes stinky. And unfortunately, the sargassum seaweed that’s been piling up on South Florida beaches this summer is yet another indicator that our waters are out of whack — and in need of serious help. Sargassum…
“Welcome to the Agricultural Reserve,” reads the sign in western Palm Beach County. It might more accurately read: Welcome to yet more development. For in Palm Beach County — as in Martin County, to the north; and throughout Florida –…