Legislative update: 'Session of Sprawl?' You're soaking in it

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Back in February, before the Florida Legislature even convened, we predicted this would be a “Session of Sprawl.”

Just as we feared, bad bills that make paving over natural Florida that much easier are zipping through the legislative process.

And — need we even say it? — most bills that would help the clean-water cause are going nowhere.

It’s par for the course up in Tallahassee - and emblematic of the need for change.

VoteWater's Gil Smart took part in a panel discussion hosted by Friends of the Everglades and featuring guests from 1000 Friends of Florida and the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation on the Florida Legislative session - check it out!

News that neighbors banded together in Lee County to help stop a development proposal that would have destroyed precious mangroves was cheered - and cited as a model for other concerned citizens - in our April 7 Facebook post.

Don't follow us on social? Let's change that!

P.S. Signatures Needed! The "Right to Clean and Healthy Waters" petition needs 900,000 signature by November 30 to get on the 2024 ballot. The petition can be printed out and signed here: http://www.floridarighttocleanwater.org/