Sierra Club Florida News

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Today, Sierra Club Florida released its Florida Legislative Scorecard for 2023. The annual scorecard is designed to provide a snapshot of Sierra Club Florida’s priority bills this past session, and the legislators who either...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, in direct contradiction with the free-market principles he espouses, Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law HB3, “Government and Corporate Activism”, legislation that gives the government sweeping authority into Florida’s...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Today, Sierra Club Florida sent a letter to Senate President Kathleen Passidomo expressing the organization’s opposition to House Bill 3 on Government and Corporate Activism and its companion bill SB302. Targeting environmental,...

Tallahassee, FL—On Wednesday, February 15, 2023, a three-judge panel of the Florida 1st District Court of Appeals reversed the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), ruling that FDEP violated Florida law by not allocating the...

(Presented in 2023)  Shanell Davis-Bryant - Cypress Award - Northeast Group The Cypress Award is given to an individual who has contributed greatly to the public’s environmental  awareness in his/her locale or Florida as a whole...

  In the months following the historic, We Deserve Better Rally in front of Florida Crystals Corporate Headquarters, the Stop The Burn-Go Green Campaign has continued to hold Big Sugar and all their complicit agents accountable for the...

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022, at the South Florida Ecosystem (Everglades) Restoration Task Force meeting, Sierra Club provided these comments regarding the critical need to prioritize the Western Everglades Restoration Project (WERP).

WEST PALM BEACH–In response to the beginning of yet another pre-harvest sugar field burning season on October 1, the Stop The Burn-Go Green Campaign held a rally of 75 supporters across the street from the Florida Crystals Corporation headquarters,...