Newly elected Governor Ron DeSantis recently issued an executive order to address the many serious environmental problems that directly threaten Florida.  In the state’s November election, the environment was a top issue for voters as red tide caused massive fish kills and turned away tourists who have long flocked to our beaches.  Blue-green algae clogged…

A little known provision of the December 2017 Republican tax bill opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to the dangers of oil and gas drilling. The Refuge is 19 million acres, the size of South Carolina, and one of the most spectacular and pristine natural areas remaining in the world.To secure the vote…

Mitch McConnell, powerful  Senate majority leader and fearless Washington brawler, ran out of his D.C. senate office in a total panic when a group of rosy cheeked school children from his home state of Kentucky showed up to ask him about climate change and the Green New Deal. The thirty or so elementary school children were visibly animated,…

When congresswoman, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, rolled out the Green New Deal, they made a bold proposal to transform the U.S. economy over the next few decades by promoting renewable energy technology and industry, energy efficiency in new and existing buildings, an infrastructure bill that addresses climate change,…