Senate Bill 318: Regulation of Oil and Gas Resources received 9 YEAS and 10 NAYS and died in the Florida Senate Appropriations committee on March 11, 2016. This bill was referred in October 2015 to the Senate Environmental Preservation and Conservation Subcommittee and was approved in January 2016. The bill then moved to Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government and was …
Florida Springs Protection Awareness Month
April is Springs Protection Awareness Month. There are more than seven hundred identified springs in the State of Florida. All of which have become threatened in varying degrees by anthropogenic activities and other factors. As such, many of the water management districts (WMDs) have established “Spring Teams” comprised of in-house experts charged with evaluating and applying a variety of techniques …