Sweetwater: A Film by Spencer Miller
Talented documentary filmmakers weave complex issues into stories you can't look away from. Spencer Miller does even more with Sweetwater: He tells a deeply personal, sad, and ultimately hopeful story about the decline of South Florida's waterways and the fight to recover them. Please watch it.
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Sweetwater: A Film by Spencer Miller
Talented documentary filmmakers weave complex issues into stories you can't look away from. Spencer Miller does even more with Sweetwater: He tells a deeply personal, sad, and ultimately hopeful story about the decline of South Florida's waterways and the fight to recover them. Please watch it.
Guest Post: Toxic Caldwell
Agriculture Commissioner candidate Matt Caldwell's policies may be more responsible for this year's toxic blooms than any other Florida politician's.
Holly Raschein's Anti-Water Voting Record
Holly Raschein has spent a career voting to gut hundreds of millions from Everglades protection funding, voted multiple times to delay cleanup of Lake Okeechobee (the source of toxic green algae plaguing our waters), advocates for letting polluters off the hook from paying to clean up their messes and constantly guts water quality standards. Raschein has supported fracking multiple times and even voted to allow treated sewage into drinking water aquifers.
Don’t take our word for it… look for yourself. We’ve pasted dozens of anti-clean water votes below so you can see her voting record for yourself.
Florida Bay and the Everglades cannot afford two more years of Holly Raschein.
Poisoned by the River: Toxic Algae and the Fight to Save Dogs on the St. Lucie
Ashley Guzi spent the night of September 1st waiting for the news that Costa, her four-year-old golden retriever, was dead. She stared at her phone, thinking about how she’d tell her children.
Game Changer: Experts Say The Stop Harmful Discharge Act Can Help Right Away
Congressman Brian Mast recently introduced the Stop Harmful Discharges Act (HR 6700). It is a potential game-changer for Everglades Restoration. Bullsugar.org was honored to be part of the team that worked on the bill. The bill's language is simple, but it contains important ideas that are critical to fixing South Florida's water problems.
Water Should Be Above Politics. Why Isn't It?
Hurricane Michael reminds us there are more important things than politics. But as we also know, natural and man-made disasters are politicized too, including this hurricane and the recently authorized EAA Reservoir, which passed the Senate yesterday 99-1 as part of the WRDA bill.
Bullsugar.org Releases Voter Guides, Endorses Bill Nelson
For Immediate Release: October 3—Stuart, Florida—Clean water advocacy Bullsugar.org today announced its endorsement of Sen. Bill Nelson for US Senate, and the release of its bi-partisan voter guides for the 2018 general elections.
