👀🚨 @craigtimes.bsky.social has the deets on a terrible #Florida House Bill 479 - would ban local govts from imposing “laws, regulations, rules, or policies” to protect wetlands and prevent water pollution. floridaphoenix.com/2026/01/08/f...

By @craigtimes.bsky.social in #Florida Phoenix "AI data centers are water-draining, energy-sucking polluters that drive up power bills and drive down residential property values. Local governments should be allowed to say no to them, period." floridaphoenix.com/2026/01/01/t...

Smart #journalism on #Florida water pollution. A two part investigation by @tampabaytimes.bsky.social ran this year. www.tampabay.com/investigatio...

1/4 Time to fight back on this developer dream legislation introduced by politicians and lobbysists in the #Florida Legislature (Session runs Jan 13-March 13): WUSF reports on 6 bills attacking local rules on development:

Gorgeous day today with light rain at the springs

Ichetucknee head spring today

Winter fire

The govt offered oil & gas drilling leases for sale yesterday for 80 million acres. I circled where leases (little green boxes) sit right where some of the rarest whales on Earth, Rice's whales, hang out in the deep DeSoto Canyon off #Florida

Oh OK I'm sure this is fine

@craigtimes.bsky.social reporting in Florida Phoenix shows state's science is seriously lacking to justify #Florida black bear trophy hunt on Saturday floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/04/f...

Thanks ace reporter @jasongarcia.bsky.social for this investigation into a corporation and its political pals trying to kneecap the Water Quality Assurance Act in #Florida so they don't have to compensate pollution victims. Bill can still be stopped. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/lobbyists-...

#Florida Legislature bill would prohibit any community from banning gas-powered leaf blowers (Miami Beach and Naples have ordinances requiring less noisy/polluting battery powered ones.) Provision is tucked in this year's big ag bill - SB 290

#Florida folks - there is still time to stop this. My @earthjusticenow.bsky.social colleague explains what's at stake for S. FL corals off Ft Lauderdale earthjustice.org/experts/dani...

What's funny about this New York Times headline - "Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War" is that climate "change" is a well-known greenwashing effort from fossil fuel companies to describe the Earth's climate crisis

If you need some low-priced holiday gifts, University Press of #Florida is offering 40 percent off its books, including my new one WELCOME TO FLORIDA. Use the code 31HOL25 to get the discount. Even Santa would be bowled over by these savings! floridapress.org via @floridapress.bsky.social

Could be a good opportunity for early-career #Florida #journalists ahttps://healthjournalism.org/fellowships/national-science-health-environment-reporting-fellowships/

New offshore drilling plan announced. Notice new "area B" off Florida in Eastern Gulf.

Excellent #journalism by @tampabaytimes.bsky.social. Reporters spent yrs nailing down data to show the state bows to polluters at every turn, leaving our public waters worse every year. project.tampabay.com/investigatio...

Wow 👀 this investigation by ace #journalist @jasongarcia.bsky.social on how #Florida Gov. used taxpayer $$ to pay donors and his own campaign people on brazenly political campaign. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/hidden-con...

On reckless furloughing nuke workers, U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers. R-Ala is correct: “These are not employees that you want to go home.“They’re managing and handling a very important strategic asset for us. They need to be at work and being paid.” www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/20/g...

Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout. www.wsj.com/finance/arge...

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social is a great and courageous #Florida #journalist who broke the Epstein sex trafficking story yrs ago in the @miamiherald.com and has kept on it. She reports with Claire Healey on new documents showing more cozy ties between Epstein and men in power.

#Florida #journalism capital bureau reporter job opening mcclatchy.rec.pro.ukg.net/MCC1008MCLTC...

Earthjustice is fighting for our environment in court and they need our help

#Florida rejects St. Johns County’s 2050 Comprehensive Plan as too restrictive, another victim of evil pro-development SB 180 tying the hands of local govts www.staugustine.com/story/news/l... h/t @floridatrend.bsky.social

Um....#Florida Gov's wife has never heard of Bad Bunny?? www.miaminewtimes.com/music/florid...

👀 Quite the story here, especially the background of the developer, a #Florida political donor, from Louisiana who stands to benefit from $80 million-plus of our tax money for 4 acres in Destin.

1/5 More hinky things in #Florida state conservation lands program. @bruceritchie.bsky.social reports in @politico.com - proposal before Cabinet would allow a wetlands mitigation bank on private land near St. Johns River where the state has already paid a landowner not to develop.

👀$80m of taxpayer $$ for 4 acres? Legislative language slipped in reverts $850m from Florida Wildlife Corridor "and instead placed the Destin purchase as the top priority ahead of corridor projects." @bruceritchie reports in @politico subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

RIP to my “wasband.” He made a difference in this world, just like our daughter is making a difference www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2...

👀 @craigtimes.bsky.social in #Florida Phoenix on new BP Gulf "Kaskida" rig plan: "Here’s a fun fact about Kaskida: BP found that deposit of oil in 2006 using the same drilling rig that it used for Deepwater Horizon. OK, maybe that fact isn’t so fun after all." floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/28/b...

Hear that? It’s 2 a.m. You’re in bed. The sun hasn’t risen, but the robin has. It is 🎶-ing at an unnatural hour, waking you. If this has happened to you, you’re not alone. Artificial light is prompting birds to tweet for nearly an extra hour a day on average. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

"In #Florida, a 60-year-old couple earning $82,000 would see their annual premiums rise by almost $20,000. For a family of four making $126,000, premiums would rise by more than $9,000 each year." GOP megabill targets entrepreneurs, small businesses. www.tampabay.com/news/health/...

What could go wrong? It's only our #Florida Drinking. Water. At. Stake.

BREAKING: A federal judge sided with conservation groups, ordering the state of Florida and the Trump administration to temporarily stop further construction of the mass detention center in the Florida Everglades.

Pretty sure I saw a “bat” that was actually a drone flying over Tallahassee #Florida during an outdoor music festival Saturday. Did not look like a real bat to me at all & did not fly like one.

Look- another example of the state trampling on community rights. This dynamic is THE story of what’s happening in #Florida as corporations roll over the landscape, aided by their politician lackeys

1/3 Important #Florida #journalism by Emily Mahoney and Nate Monroe, two excellent reporters. (In the late 1980s, this nuclear plant was part of my environmental reporting beat. Every bit of nuclear waste it has produced is still onsite -- on a populated barrier island!)

Representatives of 15 coal-burning power plants, four steel mills, four chemical facilities and two mines wrote a simple email to President Convicted Felon's EPA requesting an exemption from clean-air rules. They all got it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c... via @nytimes.com

A top aide to Ron DeSantis just admitted that the administration is breaking the law by hiding contracts connected to “Alligator Alcatraz,” the immigration detention facility it built in the middle of the Florida Everglades. 🧵...

1/4 How is this the right way to spend #Florida conservation dollars? @politico.com report: The state bought 25,000 acres in Collier County from Tarpon Blue for $122 million of taxpayer money in 2024. We, the public, now own it.

Good explainer column in @SunSentinel about the $10 million in taxpayer $ that #Florida Gov. and wife, along with state AG, swiped and diverted into political committees to fight citizen initiatives. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/07/17/f...

Yes, they are jailing a longtime #Florida Everglades scientist today. On dubious charges. The case is about revenge politics against scientific studies that craven leaders don't want to conflict with their greenwashing "restoration" story. insideclimatenews.org/news/1707202...

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#Florida lawmaker shills for problem-plagued nuclear industry. News flash: There. Is. Nowhere. To. Put. The. Waste. It's all still piled up there, at all the aged nuke plants in Florida, and it never goes away. www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...

Good column by @craigtimes.bsky.social on #Florida's failure to protect the largest store of fresh water springs on Earth. Our rarest resource - clear, flowing water, is being polluted so Big Ag and developers can profit. floridaphoenix.com/2025/07/10/d...

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity, backed by Earthjustice, filed a federal lawsuit to halt construction of a new immigrant detention center in the Everglades until a full environmental impact study is conducted, as required by federal law.

1/3👀Big contractor involved in #Everglades detention center gave $1.9 million to 2 #Florida GOP and DeSantis political committees. In May, reporters spotted person who runs company