A Year of Showing Up, Speaking Out, and Winning TogetherIn 2025, Protecting Florida Springs proved—again—that organized people can protect water, land, and wildlife, even in a tough political climate. This was a year of persistence, courage, and...

A proposed 3,000-bed ICE internment facility is targeting Starke, Florida.Starke is a small town of 5,449 residents, located almost equidistant between Jacksonville, Lake City, and Gainesville. The site under consideration is a county-...

If Florida’s waters could host a summit, January would be the opening keynote. From spring recharge to drought mismanagement and missing environmental data, the state’s water future is up for debate - and public input matters.Here’s the landscape...

No clear answers have been provided about GRU's future operations by the Gainesville Regional Utility Authority (GRUA).At the October 7, 2024 meeting, CEO Ed Bielarski halted the established Integrated Resources Plan (IRP), stopping the necessary...

Florida’s recent black bear hunt ended with an outcome that deserves recognition as well as reform. Only 52 bears were reported killed, and - critically - at least the same number were spared through a Sierra Club-led Spare a Bear, Bag a Tag...

Florida’s black bears were removed from the state’s threatened species list in 2012 after decades of recovery — but new data from the Osceola National Forest suggest that progress may be slipping away.According to preliminary estimates shared by FWC...

ACTION ALERT by Oct 7: Florida’s wildlife deserves real conservation leadership — not more conflicts of interest.The Florida Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources will soon vote on whether to reappoint real estate and mining...

ACTION ALERT:  The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is reviewing SpaceX’s request for new launch and reentry flight paths that would see its upper-stage Starship rocket crossing over Florida as it makes its way toward space and eventually...

The Governor’s Gainesville Regional Utility Authority (GRUA) has filed yet another lawsuit to stop the people of Gainesville from voting this November on who should control our utility. The lawsuit is frivolous — a judge has already rejected most of...

The Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) has come under scrutiny for purchasing land from Rayonier in 2015 while allowing the company to retain—and later lease—mineral rights to Chemours for titanium mining. This arrangement leaves the...