Press Releases

The Cocoa City Council passed a resolution committing the city to transition to 100 percent clean, renewable energy for the entire community by 2050 and for municipal operations by 2035.

The Miami-Dade County Commission is set to vote on a proposed water theme park that would be built on environmentally sensitive county land that is habitat for the rare Florida bonneted bat.

Representatives from organizations and businesses across Florida sent a letter to the M-CORES task forces outlining the reasons to not build the destructive toll roads.

Today marks the beginning of another sugarcane harvesting season. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Community Services and Commissioner Nikki Fried have failed to take action to end discriminatory burn season rules.

A collaboration between the No Roads to Ruin coalition and Cornell Consulting resulted in a series of three new policy reports, which found that M-CORES is infeasible and creates negative returns.

Sierra Club and Dan Rametta filed notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for violations under the Endangered Species Act with respect to the Ridge Road Extension project at the Serenova Preserve...

Sierra Club and the Stop the Burn Campaign have sent another unanswered letter to Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried about unrestrained pre-harvest sugar field burning by the sugar industry.

Gov. DeSantis surprised no one today when he signed the misnamed "Clean Waterways Act," SB 712, after it was escorted to passage in both chambers of the Legislature by Florida DEP Secretary Noah Valenstein.

By signing Senate Bill 172, Gov. DeSantis harms home rule, strips Key West of its reef protection sunscreen ordinance and jeopardizes one of Florida's most precious and unique natural resources.

Sierra Club and the Stop the Burn Campaign sent a letter to Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried following her response on Twitter to the Black Lives Matter protests.