Fracking by the Numbers
Over the past decade, the oil and gas industry has fused two technologies—hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling—in a highly polluting effort to unlock oil and gas in underground rock formations...
View ArticleDeath By A Thousand Cuts
Environment Florida Research and Policy Center released a new analysis, Death by a Thousand Cuts, exposing the impacts of funding cuts to the Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve–...
View ArticleShalefield Stories
Across the country, fracking is contaminating drinking water, making nearby families sick with air pollution, and turning forest acres into industrial zones. We believe it is vital for the public to...
View ArticleLighting the Way
Florida lags behind other leading solar states, according to a new report ranking the states on the amount of solar per capita through 2013.
View ArticleMore Wind, Less Warming
American wind power already produced enough energy in 2013 to power 15 million homes. Continued, rapid development of wind energy would allow the renewable resource to supply 30 percent of the nation’s...
View ArticleReport: Millennials experiencing record heat and extreme precipitation
As a result of global warming, young Americans today are growing up in a different climate than their parents and grandparents experienced. It is warmer than it used to be. Storms pack more of a punch....
View Article10 Ways to Help Your City Go Solar
Last month's Shining Cities report detailed how cities are good for solar and solar is good for cities. We've seen some impressive strides across the nation to momentously expand our solar...
View ArticleDeepwater Horizon: An Ongoing Environmental Disaster
The BP Deepwater Horizon blowout took a massive toll on our environment and the region’s wildlife and communities. For three months after the initial explosion, millions of gallons of crude oil and...
View ArticlePath to the Paris Climate Conference
Even without Congress, the federal executive branch and states are playing a major role in U.S. progress to address climate change. In the next decade, existing state policies and federal rules such as...
View ArticleScary Water Facts
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.-- In anticipation of Halloween, Environment Florida unveiled Scary Water Facts: 13 Frightening Facts to Blow You out of the Water, showing that, while improving, a terrifying...
View ArticleHitting Close to Home
Ninety-nine percent of Floridians live in counties affected recently by weather-related disasters, including storms, floods and other weather disasters, according to a new interactive map using data...
View ArticleAmerica’s Next Top Polluter
Tyson Foods, Inc. is “one of the world’s largest producers of meat and poultry.” The company’s pollution footprint includes manure from its contract growers’ factory farm operations, fertilizer runoff...
View ArticleShining Cities 2016
America’s major cities have played a key role in the clean energy revolution and stand to reap tremendous benefits from solar energy.
View ArticleFracking by the Numbers - Florida Factsheet
Since 2005, according to industry and state data, at least 137,000 fracking wells have been drilled or permitted in more than 20 states. Fracking has led to tremendous environmental harm and put the...
View ArticleFracking By the Numbers
Since 2005, according to industry and state data, at least 137,000 fracking wells have been drilled or permitted in more than 20 states, but the scale of fracking’s impact on our environment can be...
View ArticleA New Way Forward
America has made progress in cutting pollution from cars and trucks over the last decade as a result of improved vehicle fuel economy and slower growth in driving. But eliminating greenhouse gas...
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