A Recipe for Restoration: How Collaboration, Innovation and Nature are Helping the IRL Recover
The St. Johns River Water Management District highlights how regional collaboration, restoration projects, and science-based planning are improving water quality and supporting the recovery of the Indian River Lagoon and Upper St. Johns River Basin.
Florida’s Proposed Expansion of the Homestead Tax Exemption Creates Budgetary Challenges, May Not Survive Legal Scrutiny
Sean Parker and Owen Parker examines the potential impacts of Florida’s proposed property tax amendment, warning that while it would expand homestead tax exemptions, it could significantly reduce municipal revenue and force local governments to cut essential public services.
Earned Optimism: What 40 Years at EPSS Says About Florida’s Environmental Future
A new Sachs Media survey finds that Environmental Permitting Summer School attendees are generally optimistic about Florida’s environmental future, while highlighting their priorities for permitting reform and key differences between environmental professionals and the public on major environmental issues.
Milkweed, Monarchs and Maintenance: How FDOT Is Using Transportation Corridors to Support Florida’s Pollinators
The Florida Department of Transportation is expanding its pollinator conservation efforts by using highway rights of way to establish native wildflower and milkweed habitat, helping support monarch butterflies and other pollinators through strategic partnerships and science-based land management.
Environmental Highlights of Florida’s Proposed 2026-2027 State Budget
Gov. Ron DeSantis finalized Florida’s 2026–2027 state budget, vetoing more than $800 million in projects while approving a $117.6 billion spending plan that includes significant investments in environmental, infrastructure, and agricultural priorities.
The Wrong Debate on Landfill Leachate
State Rep. Bill Conerly discusses how deep underground injection of landfill leachate, when properly regulated, can be a safe and effective waste management method, emphasizing that disposal decisions should be guided by science, engineering, and comparative risk.
Protecting Florida Agriculture for the Next Generation
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson highlights Florida’s record investment in the Rural and Family Lands Protection Program, emphasizing its role in preserving working agricultural lands, supporting farm families, and ensuring the long-term future of the state’s agricultural industry.
Build the American Dream by Restoring Permitting Accountability
U.S. Rep. Jimmy Patronis argues that streamlining the federal permitting process through the PERMIT Act would reduce unnecessary delays, restore more authority to states like Florida, and accelerate infrastructure and development projects while maintaining environmental protections.
Environmental Highlights of Florida’s Proposed $114.5B State Budget
Top lawmakers and staff worked through Memorial Day weekend to settle on a $114.5 billion state budget, which the two chambers of lawmakers voted to approve on May 29.
EPA Diverts From Biden-Era Plan, Reworks PFAS Drinking Water Rules While Keeping PFOA and PFOS Limits
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week changes to regulation of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
SB 848 Makes Regional Stormwater Treatment a Standard Compliance Tool
BY STAFF REPORTS Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed SB 848, giving Florida’s regional stormwater treatment framework a clearer statutory footing after the state’s 2024 update to Environmental Resource Permitting water […]
Appeals Court Leaves Florida’s 404 Assumption Vacated
Florida’s long-running effort to assume Clean Water Act section 404 permitting authority suffered another major setback on March 27, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the lower court ruling vacating the program.
