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Florida developers political influence
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Craig Pittman: FL lawmakers love developers so much, they want to put us at risk of being killed by hurricanes

That’s what you get when the people who are supposed to represent us in Tallahassee decide they love their campaign contributors in the development industry more than life itself.

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Jeff Bezos Florida climate
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Craig Pittman: Jeff Bezos, welcome back to a very different Florida from the one you left

You announced in 2020 that you were committing $10 billion to the battle against the forces forcing us to endure a warmer world. How about spending some of that $10 billion in your own (new) backyard?

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Florida developers resource grabs
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Craig Pittman: These days, it’s Florida developers who are sneaking in and swiping natural resources from the public

I can always tell when I am in Santa Rosa County because it’s the place where developers are doing their dead-level best to cut down every single tree.

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DeSantis pushes natural gas climate solution
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Craig Pittman: DeSantis betrays Florida, insists the solution to climate change is burning more fossil fuel

Endorsing natural gas as your prescription for climate change is like announcing that instead of driving off a cliff at 90 mph, you’re in favor of driving off that same cliff, but at 60 mph. Same destination, but we don’t get there quiiiite as fast.

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Florida toxic algae blooms
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Craig Pittman: How one Florida city beat its stigma as a stinky town

Jax’s pollution fight offers a lesson about ridding ourselves of toxic algae blooms.

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Environmental racism is rampant in Florida
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Craig Pittman: Environmental racism is rampant in Florida, but don’t mention it

From incinerator smoke to toxic waste sites, Black residents face a lot of health hazards.

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Florida wetlands politics
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Craig Pittman: Florida attorney general tries to make it easier to pave over wetlands

Court cases can be quite entertaining. And I don’t just mean the fictional courtroom dramas on TV, ranging from “Perry Mason” to “LA Law” to “Law and Order: No Not That One, The Other One.” In the four years I spent covering criminal courts for Florida’s largest newspaper, I saw some amazing cases. I saw […]
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