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Sierra Club staff members Walter Smith and Gonzalo Valdes led a group of about 25 local residents on a "toxic bus tour" through Hillsborough County to highlight potential disaster zones, underserved areas, issues of energy inequality and possible...

The Palm Beach Post, in partnership with ProPublica, published a powerful data-driven investigative report highlighting the environmental injustice of pre-harvest sugar field burning.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed opening the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, the only land truly dedicated to keeping the Florida panther from complete extinction, to wild turkey hunting with crossbows and shotguns.

Seven national and regional organizations are calling on President Joe Biden to halt any actions by the U.S. Air Force that could lead to the installation of commercial and private cargo operations at the Homestead Air Reserve Base in Southern...

Sierra Club and the No Roads to Ruin Steering Committee did not support SB 100 because the bill did not stop all of the roads at the heart of M-CORES. SB 100 moves the state in the wrong direction and leaves North Florida's rural communities and...

Rep. Omari Hardy and Rep. Anna Eskamani gathered Glades community leaders and emissions experts for a press conference to highlight the threats presented by HB 1601. See the entire virtual press conference.

Manatee County officials issued evacuation orders for the area surrounding Florida's Piney Point in anticipation of the imminent catastrophic collapse of a phosphogypsum stack retention pond holding up to 700 million gallons of wastewater.

Colin Walkes, Sister Laura and Rep. Omari Hardy have gone out of their way to defend Floridians against harmful sugarcane field burning practices.

Radioactive waste is created when fertilizer is produced by strip-mining phosphate rock from mineral deposits. It is stored in giant "stacks" that can store up to nearly a billion tons of radioactive process water. Please take action and urge the...

A district court agreed with Sierra Club that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was improperly refusing to make public an Endangered Species Act report regarding the endangered Florida Key deer.