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Some petitioners pushing to legalize recreational marijuana, expand Medicaid, or ensure clean water access in the state constitution don't have to be Florida residents or U.S. citizens, a federal judge ruled late Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker temporarily blocked parts of a sweeping new petition fraud law championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that banned […]
WEST PALM BEACH, FL—Governor Ron DeSantis approved an additional $1.5 billion toward Everglades restoration and water quality on Earth Day, hoping to resuscitate the most threatened National Park in the United States. In his first four years in office, DeSantis allocated $3.3 billion toward restoration and water management. In January 2023, he promised that his […]
Florida Rep. Brian Mast (R) has really stirred the pot with farmers in Florida after he penned a scathing op-ed directed against U.S. Sugar and it’s associated farmers. The opinion accuses farmers of wanting to “steal” water from Floridians for their own profit.
The 8th annual Everglades Action Day is underway in Tallahassee and the message the lobby group has packaged together to help press legislators on support their cause appears to be falling on deaf Republican ears.
From the looks of how his first term in office has gone, it appears that Florida’s first “green” governor, Ron DeSantis, is making all the right moves, and coalescing a base of support that believes he is a consensus governor and could bridge all political divides.
Florida’s “Green” Governor takes another victory lap, as President Donald Trump’s newly-signed federal budget secured the $200 million Gov. Ron DeSantis and Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott requested for Everglades restoration earlier this year.
Florida has never really had an environmentally-focused governor, but the state’s newly-elected “Green Governor” is at it again. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who ran on a clean water and environment platform during the 2018 midterm elections, is giving his official tourism agency a little “eco-friendly” boost.