Category: Florida
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Activist Tom Steyer Announces Big-Spending Election Plan to Take Down Climate-Denying Candidates
The billionaire will focus on these seven races in November…
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Florida Officials Halt Unauthorized ‘Fracking-Like’ Drilling Near the Everglades
The “fracking-like” drilling refers to a request from the company to the DEP which “proposed an enhanced extraction…
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Big Oil Eyes Florida’s Public Lands, Plans to Drill in the Everglades
Plans to drill for oil close to the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge on the western edge of the Everglades …
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Florida State Students Question University’s Integrity Amid Koch Contributions and President’s Departure
Students at Florida State University are telling Charles Koch to stop compromising academic integrity with multimillion dollar grants that come with strings attached. You may recall: Back in 2011, two FSU professors revealed that the Charles Koch Foundation was given inappropriate control over the professor hiring process in the economics department, where millions of dollars were granted from the Kansas…
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Florida Congressman Says Climate All-Nighter Was ‘Crass’ and ‘Strange’
With the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projecting that Florida’s sea waters could rise by as many as 24 inches in the next four decades, you’d think Congress members in that state would give climate denial a rest. That’s not the case for at least one member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Republican Ron Desantis expressed doubt…