Sierra Club Florida News

Gov. DeSantis vetoed Senate Bill 410 — a bill that would have further weakened Florida's already crippled laws that attempt to provide for the intelligent use of the state's lands.

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 Florida's Political Action Committee recently launched its inaugural class of political interns. This summer, eight interns are embedded in seven campaigns.

To honor Black lives and to lay a path to freedom for future generations, the Movement for Black Lives is calling for Six Nineteen mobilization this weekend, June 19-21, 2020, where we will make a clear and distinct call to end police violence and...

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.

The Stop the Burn Campaign and Sierra Club stand in solidarity with protests and movements across the nation demanding an end to systemic racism in its many forms.

Voices serving frontline communities both disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus crisis and vulnerable to the impacts of the climate crisis came together from across Florida on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

Two letters were sent to Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried today from 200+ organizations to urge her to begin the phase-out of pre-harvest sugarcane field burning.

Sierra Club members and supporters are encouraged to contact Gov. DeSantis and encourage him to veto land management bill SB 410.