Issues

Clean Energy in the Sunshine State Clean energy has hit its stride, with solar prices falling 80% in recent years, and the solar industry now employing over 200,000 people — nearly twice as many people as the coal mining industry. ...

Water pollution blankets the state. Blue-green algae toxins and the stench of red tide threaten human and animal health and drive tourists (and their dollars) away. Florida's springs, lakes and rivers continue to deteriorate, and our iconic springs...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has reported that the atmosphere has, on average, warmed 1.8°F since the Industrial Revolution (with the majority of that caused by an exponential growth in the use of oil, gas and coal after...

The Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (EIJ) Committee formed in 2018 to work on these issues from within Sierra Club Florida. Whether you simply have a passion for environmental justice or empowering people to protect the human and natural...

Sierra Club has been fighting for the health and restoration of the Everglades for more than 30 years. Today, threats of destruction continue to come from pushing urban development west, and from polluting or re-routing water that is needed by...

Florida Panther     The greatest threat to Florida panthers is habitat loss. Highways and development are increasingly fragmenting Florida. With new developments, including needless toll roads crossing the state, Florida panthers are...

The health of Florida’s economy and water resources and the quality of life will decline without mitigating and reversing climate change and protecting biodiversity through the maintenance, restoration and conservation of essential ecosystems....

Stop Using Plastic Bags, Publix    Sign Our Petition!   Sierra Club Florida has created a campaign to ask Publix Supermarket to stop using single-use plastic bags at checkout. Our goal is to convince Publix to...

Stop the Burn! Pre-harvest sugar field burning is a toxic and outdated harvesting practice that takes place every year from October through May over the approximately 400,000 acres of sugarcane fields in and around the Everglades Agricultural...

In 2019, the Florida Legislature passed a bill to fast-track three major new toll roads that would destroy large swaths of Florida’s last remaining rural lands, pollute waterways and threaten endangered wildlife including the iconic Florida...