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 Kristi Strazzullo, Membership Co-Chair at the Downtown Brooksville Main Street Farmers Market.

We love connecting with community members at local events! Sierra Club Adventure Coast Group will have a tent at the the Manatee Festival Jan. 18-19 in Crystal River. We're looking for volunteers! If you're interested in volunteering at the event email sierraclubadventurecoastcc@gmail.com. See you there!

From the Tampa Bay Times:

A nonprofit presented a clear demand in a new lawsuit against Florida’s environmental regulators: Follow the law and make your own rules to save Florida’s struggling springs.

The lawsuit, filed this month in Hernando County, comes nearly nine years after Florida lawmakers passed a measure that requires the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to create rules that would prevent commercial, agricultural and utility industries from drawing a damaging amount of water from springs.

The law was designed to protect springs like the Wekiwa and Ichetucknee, where advocates worry permits are being easily approved by water managers and the withdrawing of too much groundwater has strangled springs of the flows needed to fend off pollution and let biodiversity thrive.

But as the years have mounted without any official new state rules – what the Florida Springs Council argues is “continued inaction” from regulators – the nonprofit claims it has no choice but to sue the state’s environmental regulatory agency.

“If our state agencies don’t have to follow the law, we have no hope,” said Ryan Smart, executive director of the nonprofit suing the state. “Frankly, they should be ashamed that it takes a nonprofit group and a law clinic to sue them – not over the technical stuff – but just on following the basic mandate they were given nine years ago.”

The law from 2016 also required the state to clearly define what is considered “harmful” for Florida springs. That definition was meant to work as a guardrail for regional water managers who are tasked with issuing the permits to draw water from springs.

Read the full article here.