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Mitch PerryFebruary 23, 2016

The Chairman of the Tampa Bay Sierra Club, Kent Bailey, issued out a letter to Hillsborough County Commissioners on Monday, where he once again stated that the Board should begin implementing policies right now to deal with transportation issues, before awaiting the results of referendum later this year (that may never even get on the […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 12, 2016

With Florida’s acclaimed state park system running a deficit of about $20 million annually, Department of Environmental Protection head Jon Steverson has called for the consideration of expanding commercial activities in state parks, such as hunting, cattle grazing and timber harvesting. People outraged by that idea are holding rallies up and down the state Saturday to register […]

Ryan RayNovember 19, 2015

An environmental activist group has filed a complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency seeking a challenge to an air emissions permit from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to the U.S. Sugar Corp. Attorneys for Earthjustice filed the complaint Thursday, which seeks to include cane burning as part of DEP’s purview when issuing air […]

Mitch PerryNovember 6, 2015

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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is financing his super PAC about $10 million in television ads targeting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and three other attorneys general for their opposition to the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. “Despite the overwhelming evidence of the clean power plants progress and the lives we’ve saved, the […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 14, 2015

Things are going to look a little silly outside of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s Tampa office Wednesday evening as the work daywinds down. Environmental groups and supporters plan to gather at 5 p.m. in life vests and pool floaties to demand that Rubio be a climate leader, not denier. The event is planned in coordination […]

Mitch PerryAugust 27, 2015

The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved a settlement agreement previously negotiated between Florida Power & Light (FPL) and the Office of Public Counsel. FPL ratepayers will pay $520.5 million to purchase and then phase out the Cedar Bay Generating coal-fired power plant in Jacksonville, located near the St. John’s River. “As we continue to […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 12, 2015

On Tuesday, a couple of interesting emails went out from The Daily Caller. The leitmotif was an animus toward Jeb Bush. One of the emails was their nightly digest, TheDC Evening, which offered a link to a piece entitled “Jeb Worked with Bloomberg amid $50 Million Anti-Coal Campaign.” The lede: “Presidential candidate and former Gov. Jeb Bush […]

Mitch PerryAugust 5, 2015

President Barack Obama says the plan he announced on Monday to reduce climate change is “the biggest, most important step we have ever taken” to deal with the issue. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power stations by nearly a third within 15 years. It calls […]

Guest AuthorJuly 27, 2015

For decades, conservatives have lamented federal subsidies in American farm policy accruing to Big Sugar. Strangely, the wailing falls silent south of the Georgia border. In Tallahassee, the glad-handing and back slapping by Big Sugar for its supporters is ubiquitous. The application of sugar money to lobbyists’ and lawyers’ net worth statements, contributions to lawmakers, […]

Mitch PerryJuly 9, 2015

You’ve gotta love Tom Lambdon. Well, let me take that back. You don’t have to love anybody. In fact, there are many people in St. Petersburg who would hope to never hear this man’s name mentioned in polite company ever again. But civic activists like Lambdon wouldn’t get anywhere if they weren’t representing others who need someone to lead […]

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Mitch Perry Report for 2.23.16 – Still waiting for that Go Hillsborough Sheriffs report

Rallies set Saturday to protest making state parks “profit centers”

U.S. Sugar calls recent EPA cane burning complaint “baseless”

Bloomberg group to air ads targeted Pam Bondi for challenging Obama’s Clean Power Plan

Protesters don life vests to challenge Marco Rubio’s denial of sea level rise

FPL gains OK to purchase, close coal-fired plant in Jacksonville

The Daily Caller guns for Jeb Bush

PPP survey finds 66% of Floridians support EPA clean power plan

Alan Farago: Big Sugar has conservatives chasing their tails

Mitch Perry Report for 7.9.15 — Pier politics returns yet again in St. Pete