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The fact that water bottlers in Florida get free access to water they package and sell — and therefore make 100 percent profit on the materials — is often a sticking point for conservationists.
While giving away water bottling rights in a state expecting water shortages may seem to be the perfect illustration of bad water [...]

 
 
Artesian springs are one of the most unique natural and cultural resources in northern Florida.  However, their decline during the last several decades is well documented, especially with regards to reduced spring flow and increased nitrate-nitrogen concentrations.  Faced with budget cuts and declining tax revenues, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and the various [...]

By Nathan Crabbe

CITRA — Billionaire auto parts magnate Frank Stronach said high school bands usually welcome him at openings for his factories, so he “felt a bit bad” about being met by protesters at Tuesday’s dedication of a University of Florida conference center named after him.

Stronach donated $1.5 million to fund construction of the center at [...]

Without fanfare, the nation’s nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away.
The revamp, the first since the program began after Three Mile Island in 1979, also eliminates a requirement that local [...]

Recently I have been asked about soldiers posing with corpses…What I find most disconcerting is all this attention to what is done to these dead bodies and absolutely no question or curiosity about why they are dead in the first place. No questions about why U.S. troops are still in Afghanistan at all…”

Long involvement in Canada’s tar sands has been central to Koch Industries’ evolution and positions the billionaire brothers for a new oil boom.By David Sassoon, InsideClimate News
via Koch Brothers’ Activism Protects Their 50-Year Stake in Canadian Heavy Oils | InsideClimate News.

David Sneed reports in the San Luis Obispo Tribune:

The owner of a Cayucos ranch has agreed to work with federal wildlife officials to protect California red-legged frogs.
Under a Safe Harbor Agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Swallow Creek Ranch three miles north of Cayucos will manage a creek and pond on the property [...]

InsideClimate News has the details on where pipelines are proposed:
As debate over the future of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline continues to boil in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail, energy companies are proceeding with many other pipeline projects that would give large amounts of Canadian crude access to foreign markets within the [...]

From ClickGreen:
Loss of biodiversity appears to affect ecosystems as much as climate change, pollution and other major forms of environmental stress, according to results of a new study by an international research team.
The study is the first comprehensive effort to directly compare the effects of biological diversity loss to the anticipated effects of a host [...]

NPR reports:
There’s now a $45,000 reward for information leading to those responsible for the death of a white buffalo, “considered sacred by its Lakota Sioux owner,” and its mother near Greenville, Texas, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram‘s Crime Time blog.
The size of the reward has gone up ninefold in recent days and is likely [...]

More from Mother Jones
Last week, the University of Illinois’ College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) in Champaign-Urbana made a momentous announcement: it has accepted a $250,000 grant from genetically modified seed/agrichemical giant Monsanto to create an endowed chair for the “Agricultural Communications Program” it runs with the College of Communications.
The university’s press release [...]

You’re invited to a Campaign Party for Mike Byerly and Robert “Hutch” Hutchinson · By BusyKislig Shires Byerly

Sunday, May 6, 2012
5:30pm until 7:30pm

7726 SE 179th Pl, Micanopy, FL 32667
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Tom Philpott puts a Nature study under scrutiny for Mother Jones:
Like a good buffet, Nature‘s recent meta-analysis comparing the productivity of industrial and organic agriculture offered something for every taste.
For enthusiasts of large-scale, chemical-intensive agriculture, there was this headline finding: Yields on organic farming—the amount of crop produced per acre—are on average 25 percent lower [...]

GRU Deerhaven Plant ©Trish Riley
The Gainesville Renewable Energy Center biomass electrical conversion project is being built by the Massachusetts based international joint venture, American Renewables, LLC. Environmental experts, the American Lung Association, Massachusetts Medical Society, Florida Medical Association, Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition, the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians, and other health-concerned associations and groups [...]

Nestle came into Florida and managed to pull off quite the coup.
The company got a permit to take water belonging to Floridians — hundreds of millions of gallons a year from a spring in a state park — at no cost to Nestle.
No taxes. No fees. Just a $230 permit to pump water until 2018.
Nestle [...]