Hendry County Democratic Environmental Caucus of Florida

05/21/2024

In Florida’s pine sand hills, coastal dune areas, and even urban lots, the increasingly rare gopher tortoise makes its home. Florida’s only native tortoise species has been on the planet for 60 million years and can be found in all 67 Florida counties. But their populations have declined signifi...

05/06/2024

Help empower Floridians to create and enforce a fundamental right to clean and healthy waters.

07/31/2023

Feline leukomyelopathy is a type of neurological disease that cripples Florida wild cats and renders them unable to hunt or escape predation.

07/17/2023

Blue-green algae has grown thick at a time when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has started making releases to the Caloosahatchee River from Lake O.

07/10/2023

06/19/2023

The Democratic Environmental Caucus of Florida proudly celebrates Juneteenth. We know the fight for freedom continues. We know there is work to do for and .

06/06/2023

Today is World Environment Day: At a time when extreme temperatures, abnormal storms and cyclones, and natural calamities remind us every day about the irreparable damage to mother Earth, World Environment Day, provides a hope and an opportunity to all of us to do our bits for the protection of the environment and earth's well being.

This year’s theme is , and — a reminder that people's action on plastic matters as the material is slowly seeping into our oceans, soil and forest and causing irreparable damage.

What better way to celebrate than to join (or renew) your local and/or state Democratic Environmental Caucus?!?

Ask us how!!!

05/03/2023

We urge you to sign up and demand HB1191/SB1258 Use of Phosphogypsum be vetoed.

“In addition to high radium 226 levels, phosphogypsum contains significant amounts of sulfur and various heavy metals such as arsenic, barium, cadmium, and lead. Contaminated water and dissolved materials containing these toxins have the potential to seep from phosphogypsum used for construction purposes and pollute the underlying aquifer.

Phosphate companies have had more than 70 years to figure out a way to dispose of their radioactive gypsum wastes in an environmentally acceptable manner but have yet to do so. Instead, the industry is producing tens of millions of tons of waste annually, and the industry continues to expand its dumping operations.

Please protect our environment, our health and the cleanliness of our drinking water and VETO this Radioactive Bill.”

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