Press Releases

The Florida Springs Council, Florida Waterkeepers and Sierra Club today responded to remarks by Florida's Chief Science Officer, Thomas K. Frazer, Ph.D., regarding Sen. Mayfield's Senate Bill 712.

Sierra Club has filed suit to challenge the permit recently given by the US Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) to Pasco County for the Ridge Road Extension. This is the next step in a 20-year fight to protect the Serenova Preserve.

The backbone of water quality protection in Florida over the past 13 years has been the ability for local governments to regulate sources of pollution in their own backyards. A new coalition of turf and agrichemical industries threatens the state's...

Sierra Club encourages the implementation of conservation policies that protect threatened wildlife and sensitive habitat and improve the long-term health of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Sierra Club issued a response to the announcement that Florida will purchase 20,000 acres in Broward County from Kanter Real Estate.

Today Sierra Club Florida released its Governor's Report Card for 2019 at a press conference at the Florida Capitol Rotunda. Overall, the governor received a "D" for his efforts.

Sugar growers around Belle Glade protested today in front of a Florida Forestry Division Work Center, with smoke and ash plumes along the horizon in every direction.

Pre-harvest sugar field burning is an outdated, toxic, inherently unjust and entirely unneeded practice that the Florida sugar industry keeps and defends because no one in power has been willing to say no to them.

Numerous statewide and regional organizations made a strong stance against the toll roads discussed at the launch of Florida Department of Transportation's (FDOT) M-CORES task forces meeting.

Sierra Club submitted comments on the Revised Draft Integrated Project Implementation Report and Environmental Impact Statement for the Lake Okeechobee Watershed Restoration Project.