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Thread. Since I see the media myth of #Florida @GovRonDeSantis being some sort of environmental champion is inexplicably surfacing again, here's a little factual rundown of the truly damaging things he's done so far. 1/
Crushing the rights of citizens and local govt's to pass environmental laws or fight polluters. These are horrifying and little noticed gifts to big-bucks campaign donors https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2019/07/29/four-awful-new-state-laws-that-punish-citizens/ 2/
Pretending to care about climate change for headlines and then doing nothing, just like his predecessor https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commentary/fl-op-com-invading-sea-climate-change-report-florida-20200806-uvteikfspja4tkbvqhaxs66tim-story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sun-sentinel%2Fnews%2Fopinion+%28Editorial+Opinions+%2F+South+Florida+Sun-Sentinel%29 3/
Giving #Florida developers their "Holy Grail" ( h/t @craigtimes ) by getting EPA to turn over wetlands permitting to Florida so they can destroy the public's resources more easily 4/
Backing the biggest anti-environment boondoggle in decades - an insane, politically directed multi-billion statewide toll road network for developers to cash in on, including the richest man in #Florida, a Mar-a-Lago member 5/ https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2019/03/21/legislatures-planned-road-project-could-benefit-floridas-richest-man/
Getting headlines for a sad, weak water pollution "initiative" that does nothing to prevent what's killing waterways and causing fish kills - sewage, manure, and fertlizer runoff 6/ https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2019/01/10/desantis-issues-broad-directive-on-water-pollution-but-something-big-is-missing/
Most people understandably have no idea what's in the #Everglades "restoration" plan that @GovRonDeSantis is throwing billions of tax dollars at. The big prize is a deep pit where Big Ag can pump its pollution at our expense instead of cleaning it up. 7/
This pit -- er, "reservoir," was initially imagined as a marshy area to clean runoff and have it flow naturally but no more. We're talking 37-ft-high walls, according to excellent piece by Fort Myers News Press' @AmySWFL 8/ https://www.news-press.com/story/tech/science/environment/2020/12/11/everglades-restoration-20-years-5-billion-florida-environment-drinking-water/6173132002/
The Big Ag pit is not environmental progress and no one should give @GovRonDeSantis credit for throwing money at another giant engineering thing that won't work. 9/ https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2019/08/16/floridas-2-billion-lake-okeechobee-reservoir-plan-wont-clean-water-enough-everglades-expert-says/
As Marjory Stoneman Douglas told me years ago about those who seek to fill, drain, and mess with #Florida - "Their mommies mustn't have let them play with mud pies." /10
I haven't even gotten into the complete dereliction of duty from @GovRonDeSantis when it comes to stewardship for rarest creatures/plants in the world that live/migrate in #Florida. Hoping this is enough for now to reconsider the "environmental" Gov myth. /End of Thread
