Keep Polk County Beautiful Seeks Support
Keep Polk County Beautiful is looking for more financial support to continue litter cleanup and community improvement work all over Polk County, according to an appeal that went out this week. Keep...
View ArticleOil Drilling On Land In Florida Is Controversial, Too
Most of the talk about oil drilling in Florida has involved concerns about spills from offshore rigs despoiling our beaches and chasing away tourists. The recent news that marine life as far south of...
View ArticleWhy Do We Trash Our Treasures?
I was out in eastern Polk County today working on an article and taking some photos for an environmental feature. I saw a lot of lovely habitat, but to get to the habitat you have to run a gantlet of...
View ArticleWhat Bhopal Anniversary Means In Polk
One of the top environmental stories today was the 30th anniversary of the chemical disaster in Bhopal, India. A chemical leak from a Union Carbide plant killed 4,000 and injured thousands more. That...
View ArticleNew Book Outlines Modern Era’s Environmental Costs
In 1969 political cartoonist Ron Cobb depicted our resource appetite in a cartoon that depicted the earth being ground up by a variable-speed machine set on “Industrialization” that spewed a mass of...
View ArticleA New Year’s Environmental Agenda For Polk
Decades ago a group called the Polk Coalition for the Environment would appear before the County Commission every year and present their agenda for things they’d like commissioners to consider in the...
View ArticleState Settles In Auburndale Hazardous Waste Case
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has settled with the owners of a Auburndale plant against whom officials filed suit in 2012 over the mishandling of hazardous waste. The former...
View ArticleEPA Launches New Site For Communities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched a new website to help local officials and community members find information for improving the environment, public health and quality of life....
View ArticlePEER report rips DEP enforcement efforts
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s lax enforcement of hazardous waste regulations has come under fire from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. In a recent 37-page...
View ArticleDiscarded hoverboards are hazardous waste
The Hoverboard craze is causing some environmental issues when these devices break and people think of disposing of them.. If you’re throwing one away,the garbage can isn’t the place to do it,...
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