A bill promoted by anti-fracking activists won approval from the Florida Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee in a November 5 vote, but prospects for its advancing further through the legislative process once the session begins in January appear to be dim.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday that he had reached a deal with a private company to purchase Everglades acreage on which it had proposed to drill a wildcat well in an attempt to find oil.
American taxpayers are spending $23 billion to try to clean up the Florida Everglades. So why allow a new oil-drilling operation there? Conservation groups say that would just mess things up again.