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April 24th, 2018 || Environment, Station Updates, Sustainable Living.

Clean Air Fair or Poor? on the Sustainable Living Program

On Monday’s Sustainable Living Program our topic was Clean Air and EPC’s upcoming annual Clean Air Fair in Tampa. We had guests from Hillsborough County’s Environmental Protection Commission and the Sierra Club Suncoast Chapter. Cars, solar, coal, dirty air in Hillsborough County, the VW settlement, and the Clean Air Fair were the topics of the… Read more »

St. Pete begins discussion on best way to reduce plastics

April 12th, 2018 || Environment

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  • St. Pete businesses unveil voluntary plastics-reduction program; environmentalists want more

    April 10th, 2018 || Environment

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    New documentary on St. Pete sewage crisis

    April 6th, 2018 || Environment

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    UPDATED: Will Rick Scott sign "toilet to tap" legislation?

    April 6th, 2018 || Environment

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    In Tampa, Adam Putnam says he's 'very pleased' with Trump administration calling for a revision of NAFTA

    April 6th, 2018 || Drugs

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    Does a new law privatize some Florida beaches? It's more complicated than that

    April 5th, 2018 || Environment

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    Law student pushing for plastic straw ban in Gulfport

    April 3rd, 2018 || Environment

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    Industry still dumping pollution into Florida waterways: report

    March 29th, 2018 || Environment

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    Students find low levels of lead in South St. Pete water

    March 28th, 2018 || Environment

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    Fracking ban fails in Florida Legislature

    March 26th, 2018 || Environment

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    Update on lawsuit to enforce Florida's conservation lands amendment

    March 22nd, 2018 || Constitution

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    March 20th, 2018

    • Economy
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    • Water

    Will Floridians be able to vote on whether offshore drilling is allowed?

    Putting a ban on offshore drilling in the Florida Constitution Florida voters may get a chance to ban oil and gas drilling in waters near the state’s coast. The Florida Constitution Revision Commission will take a final vote by May on whether to enshrine a ban in the state constitution on the 2018 ballot. Sixty-percent of… Read more »

    March 19th, 2018

    • Development
    • Environment
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    Residents struggle for quiet with shooting range near environmentally important land

    In northwest Hillsborough County there’s a 400-acre chunk of land that environmentalists hope to save as a way to keep recharging the drinking water aquifer; Monday night in the Hillsborough County Center there’s a land use meeting, in part to talk about the future of this land near Keystone that also includes a shooting range…. Read more »

    Serenova Pasco County

    March 7th, 2018

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    Environmentalists cite a new reason feds should reject road through Serenova: $150 million price tag

    Environmentalists are hoping to save a wilderness preserve in Pasco County from being bisected by a new road; and now that the county’s budget has come out, supporters of the Serenova preserve say they plan to ask the feds to deny permitting because the cost estimate for the Ridge Road Extension has nearly doubled. WMNF… Read more »

    Center for Biological Diversity

    March 5th, 2018

    • Constitution
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    Could Floridians vote on a drilling ban in state waters?

    There is one possible amendment up for consideration by the Florida Constitutional Revision Commission that would ban all fossil fuel drilling in Florida waters; our guest in the studio was Jaclyn Lopez, Florida director of the Center For Biological Diversity. The Constitutional Revision Commission is formed every 20 years and its members are mostly picked by… Read more »

    usf trees construction Publix

    January 25th, 2018

    • Development
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    Oak trees are torn down during construction of Publix at USF

    Construction has begun on a Publix supermarket along the north edge of the University South Florida campus in Tampa; but an environmental advocate is concerned about how many old-growth oak trees have been destroyed. Louise Raterman is a USF alumna and lives near campus. “I was in the neighborhood and I suddenly saw equipment just… Read more »

    sea-level rise UCS science

    January 22nd, 2018

    • Environment
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    Sea-level rise threatens several Tampa Bay area communities: report

    A new report on sea-level rise by the Union of Concerned Scientists concludes that several Tampa Bay communities will see more and more sunny-day flooding over the next few decades; we also hear from two of the candidates running for Florida governor about climate change and sea-level rise. Here’s how Republican Adam Putnam responded last May… Read more »

    Philip Levine

    January 11th, 2018

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    Florida candidate for governor, Philip Levine, in Tampa

    Former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine is one of several people running for the Democratic nomination for Florida Governor; Levine is on a nine-city bus tour that brought him to the living room of a South Tampa house Thursday morning. Levine said two of his major accomplishments as mayor dealt with climate change resiliency and… Read more »

    January 11th, 2018

    • Elections
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    • Immigration
    • National Politics
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    MidPoint for Thursday, Jan 11 – Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and former Congressman Patrick Murphy

    Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine is one of four major Democrats running for the party’s gubernatorial nomination this August. During his appearance on MidPoint on Thursday, he doubled down on what the Gwen Graham campaign believed was an attack on their candidate when he said this week that “I’ve actually done something with my life… Read more »

    celery fields Sarasota

    January 10th, 2018

    • Campaign finance reform
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    Progress Florida Says Florida’s Outlook Is Not As Bright As GOP Leaders in Tallahassee Claim

    Radioactivity 1 10 18 Welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up—how well is the state of Florida doing when it comes to protecting the environment? How are average workers doing? Is the state creating good paying jobs? How well are we educating children? Providing health care for those who need it? We’ll hear from… Read more »

    Police in Calais near where refugees sleep

    January 8th, 2018

    • Environment
    • Immigration
    • News and Public Affairs

    Tampa activist helps refugees in Europe

    A Tampa activist is helping refugees in Europe; Dezeray Lyn works with several activist groups including Food Not Bombs Tampa and Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. She’s assisting refugees now in Western Europe through her group Love Has No Borders, documenting the crisis and providing medical and other assistance. WMNF interviewed her in early January. On… Read more »

    January 4th, 2018

    • Alternative Fuels/Energy Conservation
    • Environment
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    Offshore drilling expanded by Trump administration to 90% of US coastline

    Trump moves to vastly expand offshore drilling off US coasts By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press, with additional reporting from JoEllen Schilke, WMNF WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday moved to vastly expand offshore drilling from the Atlantic to the Arctic oceans with a plan that would open up federal waters off the California coast… Read more »

    December 25th, 2017

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    • Environment

    Don’t be naughty, be nice (with your Christmas leftovers)

    There are always so many leftovers from Christmas and the holidays. Cookies (haha just kidding, these aren’t ever left over), gift wrap and packaging, ham, tofurkey, burnt out lights, last minute gifts you thought were a good idea and then you realized oh no, this won’t work, and so on. What to do with it… Read more »

    Mosaic phosphate

    December 20th, 2017

    • Environment
    • News and Public Affairs

    Judge rules against environmentalists on Florida phosphate mining

    A federal judge has ruled in favor of phosphate mining in Florida and against a coalition of environmental groups trying to slow the expansion of mining in West Central Florida. WMNF News interviewed Jaclyn Lopez, Florida director and senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. Listen: “The plaintiffs in this case were the Center… Read more »

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