If you haven’t been down by the river in the past few weeks, here’s a grim look at what your missing. Andy Leverett, the college winner of the St. Johns Riverkeeper’s 2010 PSA Video Contest put together this video montage of the putrefaction in the river. Watch it on an empty stomach. And if you think of it, give Rep. Ander Crenshaw a call and let him know what you think of his recent attempts to undermine river cleanup efforts.

– Posted by Anne Schindler

Despite the belly-up redfish and the floating mats of toxic algae, everything is just dandy in Florida waterways. Must be; why else would U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-Jacksonville) be trying to kill financing for a measure to help clean up the state’s polluted lakes and rivers? 

The text of an amendment that Crenshaw is currently attempting to attach to a must-pass appropriations bill would effectively block so-called numeric nutrient standards, which the federal Environmental Protection Agency has said the state must implement to limit water pollution. State regulators at DEP have dragged their feet on this for years, because officials there are in the same deep pockets as Crenshaw. You can contact Crenshaw’s office to tell him what you think of his sneaky, 11th hour attempt to keep Florida’s waters polluted here.
You can read more about Crenshaw’s fealty to polluting interests in the 2008 Folio Weekly cover story “Crenshaw’s Oil Stain.”

 

– Posted by Anne Schindler