International Women's Day Yoga for Clean Water
Celebrate International Women's Day with Bullsugar on Friday by centering your mind, body, and soul, eating well, and supporting the fight for clean water!
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International Women's Day Yoga for Clean Water
Celebrate International Women's Day with Bullsugar on Friday by centering your mind, body, and soul, eating well, and supporting the fight for clean water!
Lake Okeechobee Discharges Have Started Again
There's too much water in Lake Okeechobee. ACOE said so last Friday, announcing the agency was going to have to open the locks to the east and west.
Residents' Message to Army Corps: This is NOT a Game
People are waiting hours for two minutes at the microphone. The stories they’re telling at the Army Corps’ public meetings on water management are sometimes hard to listen to. Watching their dogs die. Wondering whether the neurological diseases crippling their parents are connected to the toxic blooms on the river. Wondering what years of exposure will mean for their own health. For their children.
Judge Refuses to End Pollution Oversight in Everglades
“No.” The last holdouts on Rick Scott’s South Florida Water Management District governing board had gone years without hearing this answer from any authority, but things in Florida are different now. On Monday US Judge Federico Moreno denied their request, made essentially on behalf of Florida sugarcane growers, to end federal water quality standards in the Everglades.
JOIN US: Get Ready to Speak Up For Our Community
Scores of Treasure Coast residents have already gone on record. Now it's your turn.
The Army Corps of Engineers is offering opportunities all across the state to residents, visitors, and anyone else who holds places in Florida close to their hearts to help reshape the future of Florida’s water. They’re headed to Stuart on Tuesday, February 19th to conduct scoping hearings for how they manage Lake Okeechobee for the first time since 2005.
To understand what to expect and how to prepare, please join Bullsugar with Congressman Brian Mast and representatives from the Center for Biological Diversity this coming Saturday, February 16th, for a community briefing on the upcoming scoping hearing.
Public Input Needed: Is Lake Okeechobee Management Working for You?
We need your help. The Army Corps is reviewing its rules for managing Lake Okeechobee, and they want to hear whether discharges or toxic blooms have impacted people’s lives and livelihoods.
Maybe There's a Silver Bullet After all...
“There’s no silver bullet” has been just about every politician’s soundbite at some point during Florida’s ongoing water management crisis. Red tide, toxic algae, human health risks, poisoned dogs, collapsing fisheries… somehow the equivalent of “golly, search me” passes for leadership, whatever the issue.
Florida's Party Bosses Have a Choice: Sugar or Water
Quick, name the Florida politicians--Democrat or Republican--whose leadership on clean water policy makes them true champions. To be fair, there are a few legitimate champions in office today. Why aren’t there more?
