Chispa Florida News Today

‘Red tides’ are an annual hazard in Florida and other coastal areas but a monitoring project can help limit harm to humans

Though it could produce a legal battle, in a Thursday meeting, the Tampa City Council could advance a plan to declare a housing state of emergency and allow Nov. voters to approve rent control.

The 60,173 diesel-powered school buses that circulate daily in Florida release 511,470 tons of CO2 into the air each year.

Report shows air quality-related cancer rates are higher for LGBTQ+ and Latino communities are more likely to suffer respiratory illnesses.

On Tuesday Café we heard about opposition to fossil fuel drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, from an online conference call hosted by Oceana.

Environmental justice advocates were circulating a petition for counties across Florida to use electric school buses at a weekend event to distribute free menstrual products and diapers in Tampa.

The organizations not only warned about the risks of damaging a protected natural zone, but also warned that the proposed action involves misuse of funds and possible violations of federal laws.

Nurses and hospital workers who work for HCA, which owns 43 hospitals in Florida, released a report with evidence showing how HCA may be routinely over-admitting Medicare patients, allowing HCA to rake in nearly $2 billion in overcharges to Medicare.

Diversity, inclusion and the possibility of living an open and genuine life in Florida are being threatened, according to LGBTQ+ and Hispanic groups and allies that are asking the community to get together against several bills in the Legislature they say are “detrimental.”

“The government hasn’t done anything to protect Tampa’s water sources,” said a Chispa Florida study participant from Tampa.