Sierra Club Florida News

The Stop the Burn – Go Green Harvest Campaign released a report debunking misinformation from U.S. Sugar about air quality monitoring and air quality in the Everglades Agricultural Area.

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.

Gov. DeSantis has made it more difficult for Floridians to vote by signing SB90. Sierra Club calls on the U.S. Senate to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

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...

Sierra Club Florida sent an out-of-the-ordinary "veto request" letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis, targeting 12 anti-environment/anti-democracy bills that Sierra Club staff, members and supporters have worked to amend or stop.

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...