A small victory: Florida used “climate change” in a grant application when three other states avoided the words
Here’s good news: The State of Florida is no longer in the climate-change denier club. Southern coastal states are lining ...
Month: January 2020
The Florida Keys once were paradise to me, but the rising sea is going to force me to move away
Tropical breezes caress you and the sunshine blinds you on a typical day here in Tavernier, a small town in ...
U.S. House bill would curb the climate crisis by imposing a fee on greenhouse gases and sending citizens a monthly check with the proceeds
Imagine if energy producers, big manufacturers and oil barons actually sent you a check for the greenhouse gas their businesses ...
South Florida provides perfect backdrop for GOP to offer serious climate action
There is good reason for the Republican National Committee (RNC) to bring its winter meeting to President Donald Trump's Trump ...
On Florida’s west coast, the beach is eroding faster than ever and government is having to spend millions of dollars to restore it
Sand is a precious commodity on the Gulf of Mexico's Manasota Key. Just ask beachfront homeowners. Laura and Richard Klinski ...
Jacksonville should be spending millions of dollars reducing the city’s flooding risk, not subsidizing a natural gas company
On its face, it’s the type of economic development opportunity that a coastal port city would work hard to capture: ...
The warming climate is causing the seas to rise, endangering coastal cities in Florida and around the world
Florida’s coasts have seen an acceleration in sea-level rise for more than 30 years, and that rate keeps increasing. The ...
Tackling the challenges of climate change will take a “WWII scale” mobilization
For 100 years the League of Women Voters has responded to injustice and assaults on equity and quality of life ...
Florida’s legislators need to provide the money to establish a potent task force that finally will begin to address the effects of the rising seas
Talk is cheap, and time is running out for Florida to get on with the difficult and expensive task of ...
You are not powerless. You can help tackle the climate crisis by joining an advocacy group
I’ve traveled around the United States for years and I’m always thrilled by its beauty and heartened by how much ...
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