Environmental Caucus

St. Johns County Democratic Environmental Caucus
Contact: John Pilecki,  johnpilecki@gmail.com,  (215) 896-8656

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Democratic Environmental Caucus of Florida

Environmental Websites

​​www.350.org
Climate Central
Conservation Trust for Florida
Earth Justice
Environmental Action
Ethical Markets
Florida Alliance for Renewable Energy
Florida H2O Coalition
Florida Wildlife Corridor
Floridians for Solar Choice
Grist
Hike and Cycle
​Matanzas Riverkeeper
The Nature Conservancy Florida
Organic Consumers
Sierra Club
​St. Johns Soil & Water Conservation District
St. Johns Riverkeeper
St. Johns River Water Management
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Stand for Trees
U.S. Geological Survey

Environment Articles/Information

Sierra Club November 2017 Newsletter
 Save American Rivers 
Why It’s So Hard to Get Solar in Florida (That’d Be the Sunshine State)
​FLORIDA’S INDIAN RIVER LAGOON IN ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
It's 'Political Sleight-Of-Hand': For Their Next Trick, Republican Magicians Will Make Your Federal Land Disappear
FDA Changes Food Nutrition Label Requirements for the First Time in 20 Years
10 Years of Fracking: Its Impact on Our Water, Land and Climate
Gov. Scott: Do you think if we ignore climate change, it goes away?​
​Florida Coastal Environments are Collapsing
The Koch Brothers' Dirty War on Solar Power
​Arnold Schwartzenegger: I don’t give a **** if we agree about climate change.​
Florida's Parks Editorial: When being best isn't good enough
The GOP's Shocking Attack on America's National Forests
Florida utilities' loss of $6.1 billion on bad fuel bets draws criticism
9 Industries That Are Cashing In as Our Planet Heats Up
Despite Amendment 1, Florida Forever comes up short — again — in state budget deal
MIT created a solar-powered machine that turns saltwater into drinking water
10 Life Hacks to Help You Cut Plastic Out of the Picture
Obama: We can no longer delay action on climate change
Charles Koch Learns Climate Science?
Is Coal Mining Poisoning West Virginia's Water?
The Deepwater Horizon Disaster Was Five Years Ago Today. Here’s What We Still Don’t Know.
California Isn't the Only State with Water Woes
Investors Who Divest from Dirty Fuel Outperform Those Who Invest in Coal, Oil and Gas
ENVIRONMENT Earth Day Celebration Packs the National Mall
Florida is about to allow an unusual type of fracking to go completely unregulated
C Kenneth Dodd Jr.: Florida faces crisis, needs more lands placed in conservation
ENVIRONMENT: How to Defeat the Science Deniers: Even Wingnuts Learn That Reality Is Good Business
The polar ice caps are ground zero but the tropics will suffer the first body blow
Climate-change deniers are in retreat
Antarctic Expedition Team Finds Clear Signs of Climate Change at the Bottom of the World
Plasma arc recycling
How the Media Fails to Explain the Basic Science that Proves Climate Change
Big Oil’s Broken Business Model
Inaction on buying land threatens drinking supply
3 Reasons Why Solar Energy Is One of America’s Hottest Industries
The Guardian:  Introduction to THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING 
Everglades To Be Killed This October by Florida's Own Koch Brothers
ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES OF FL WORKING GROUP TO DISCUSS ONSHORE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION
UF study says more water storage needed south of Lake Okeechobee
Koch Industries Spends Millions to Gut Clean Water Act Protections
Think your plastic is being recycled? Think again.
Solar power again on the agenda as Florida Legislature readies to convene
Demand broader solar-energy options
Florida Waters: Fountains of Youth? or Fountains of Yuk?
The Real 'Snowpocalypse' Is in Boston—And Yes, Climate Change Is Likely to Blame
A Bunch of GOP 2016 Candidates Are Insane Climate Deniers -- Is the Media Going to Be 'Objective' About It?
Monsanto’s Roundup. Enough to Make You Sick.
Commentary: Have we learned from the 2010 Gulf oil spill disaster?
Seeds and Soil vs. the Tyranny of Corporate Power: A 2015 Message of Hope
Mark Ferrulo: Florida should continue to oppose offshore drilling
Soto, Bullard file legislation to ban fracking
Solar Energy Could Power America 100 Times Over
There's Been HOW Many Pipeline Spills in Alberta in The Last Four Months??
What the election means for the climate movement:
Why Republicans Keep Telling Everyone They’re Not Scientists
The Polar Vortex Controversy: Extreme Predictions Launch Debate Among Weather Experts
Saltwater Conservation summit gets underway Thursday in Cape Coral
Top 10 Greenest Countries in the World
Teen Girls Take Swipe at World Hunger With Google Science Fair Idea, Remind Us All to Dream Big
Scientists Just Discovered How to Determine if Water Contamination Comes from Fracking
Gov. Rick Scott Won’t Talk About Climate Change At Debate, But Will Talk About Religion
Cynthia Barnett: A Water Ethic For Florida (pdf)
Small-Scale Traditional Farming Is the Only Way to Avoid Food Crisis, UN Researcher Says
An Industry You’ve Never Heard of is Trying to Cut Over 1.8 Billion Dollars in Wasted Natural Gas
The Climate Change Solution in Women's Bodies
Fracking Literally Makes People Sick, New Study Finds
Sun and Wind Alter Global Landscape, Leaving Utilities Behind
Groundbreaking Study Finds Six Chemicals in Fracking Wastewater at Levels Unsafe to Drink
Warm waters causing widespread bleaching in Florida corals 
Renewable energy coalition to push for more solar in Florida
Fracking May Be Worse than Burning Coal
Progress is clear, challenges remain in planning for First Coast sea-level change
Gainesville Sun Editorial: Polluted waters
America's Energy Madness—We're Banning Solar Panels, But Many Towns Can't Regulate Fracking
Think the Southwest’s Drought Is Bad Now? It Could Last A Generation Or More
Florida Scientists Speak with Gov. Scott about Climate Change 
SWFla concerns rise over oil drilling after study showing methane gas release
Why Are Environmentalists Being Blamed for Bursting the Fracking Bubble?
Mother Jones: Bottled Water Comes From the Most Drought-Ridden Places in the Country
America Has a Scary Sewage Problem: Let's Clean It Up and Jumpstart the Economy While We're At It
Dan Gelber:  Scott supporting clean water is like Darth Vader supporting peace
Gov. Scott had stake in pipeline firm whose $3 billion venture he and his appointees backed
Obama opens Eastern Seaboard to oil exploration
Print Version: Salon.com, Lindsay Abrams: 6 Ways Climate Change is Ruining Summer for Everyone
Miami Herald, Environment: Walmart planned for endangered forest lands in South Florida
Tampa Bay Times, Craig Pittman: Texas company ends controversial oil drilling in Florida; keeps pumping from one well
St. Johns River Water Management District: Draft District Water Supply Plan (Public Meeting in Palatka on August 12, 2014)
Alternet, Ari LeVaux: Why Food You've Savaged Should Be a Growing Part of Your Diet
Alternet, Jay Walijasper: The Little Thing Our Cities Can Do to Inspire Millions More People to Bike
The Guardian, Robin McKie: Miami, the great world city, is drowning while the powers that be look away
Organic Consumers Newsletter
Bruce Ritchie: Is it time to revisit our approach to recycling?
Rick Scott Uses Our Environmental Agency to DEFEND Everglades Fracking with "Bogus" Report
Huffington Post, Bernie Sanders: Why We Need a Carbon Tax
Ecowatch: Pope Francis Calls the Destruction of Nature a Modern Sin  The pontiff says that we must respect creation rather than exploit the planet.
Gainesville Sun, Tom Lane: A fight against darkness
Improving Bioaugmentation Strategies for Remediating Contaminated Fractured Rocks
Earth Justice:  New York Communities Triumph over Fracking Industry in Precedent-Setting Case
Palm Beach Post: Obama signs Sen. Nelson bill for more toxic algae research
Mother Jones, Chris Mooney via Alternet: The Real Reason Many Americans seem so Stupid (But Aren't)
Resilient Cities, Rachel Keeton:  Did a 19-Year-Old Really Just Solve One of Earth's Biggest Environmental Problems
New York Times, Henry M. Paulson Jr.: Lessons for Climate Change in the 2008 Recession
101 Reasons to Be Hopeful About the Future of Food
Coal Ash Legal Fight Moves to Florida
How a Big Agribusiness Firm Infiltrated the EPA and Made a Mockery of Science
Is it time we start saying the E word?
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers: New Environmentalists Are Taking Bold Actions - And It's Working
The Guardian/Environment: Landmark sites in the US at risk from climate change in pictures
Fracking Hotbed is a Regulatory Disaster
Nation of Change: In Landmark Class Action, Farmers Insurance Sues Local Governments for Ignoring Climate Change
President Obama's Plan to Fight Climate Change
How Fracking is Exposing People to Radioactive Waste
Think Progress: How Scientists, Car Companies, And the Military Are Creating the Smartest Energy Solution On the Market
CleanEnergy Footprints: FPL's  Solar Plan:  It's a Joke, but It's Not Funny
Texas oil company used acid in Florida wildlife sanctuary soil, denies fracking
A Grim Photographic Tribute to the BP Oil Disaster
Bernie Sanders: What do the Koch Brothers Want
The Nation: The Tax Breaks That Are Killing the Planet
Waterwise landscaping helps save water resources
Tampa Bay Times Editorial: Time to stand and be counted on water
Diane Robert's Column:  What I would have said about water
Nation of Change: World's First Self-Cleaning Solar Park Debuts in Israel
Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
DEP Advisory Committee says No to Big Oil Drilling in Big Cypress Swamp
Daytona News-Journal: Environmentalists fight proposed bill that would reduce local control of water resources
Truthout: Could Florida Become the Next Fracking Frontier?
Humanity Has Got to Come to Grips with the World's Fresh Water Crisis
Tampa Bay Times: Florid's Future Hangs in the Balance
Former Sen. Graham  details opposition to latest Patronis permitting bill
Salon.com: The Ultimate Guide to Shutting Down Climate Trolls  (This article contains multiple links, charts and videos.)
Fantasizing About California, or Already Here: 5 Shocking Drought Facts to Make You Rethink the Golden State
NYTimes - Porter Fox: The End of Snow?
Carl Hiaasen:  Muddying the waters far from home
Daily  Kos: 25 Images of Markets Regulating Themselves
Jeffery Sachs:  A Keystone Pipeline Project will Lead to Disaster
13 Major Clean Energy Breakthroughs of 2013
Why cold weather does not disprove global warming
Study: Higher tides from climate change likely to make hurricane flooding worse
West Virginia: A History of Poverty and Pollution

Videos

Fox News & Sarah Palin Denounced In Stunning Earth Day Video 
Report exposes link between dirty money and Florida's dirty waterways 
Cartoon: Climate deniers, all washed up
Gardeners Beware 2014 - about Bees
John Oliver's 97% to 3% climate change debate
Locals Protest Keystone XL Pipeline

Renewable Energy

Politicians in Berlin Discussing Global Warming - Sculpture