#oh florida

[randombrowngirl]

Sweater weather

[gehayi]

Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by DeSantis

Phosphogypsum is a material known by the EPA to contain a "potentially cancer-causing, radioactive gas," that's the second-leading cause of

Florida governor and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis signed a bill Thursday [June 29, 2023] that would allow for roads across Florida to be made with "radioactive" mining waste that has been linked to cancer.  The measure, brought forward by the state House, adds phosphogypsum to a list of "recyclable materials" that state officials say can be used in road construction.  ::: Before it can be used, the state's Department of Transportation will need to conduct a study to "evaluate the suitability" of its use, the bill says, and "may consider any prior or ongoing studies of phosphogypsum's road suitability in the fulfillment of this duty." That task must be completed by April 1, 2024.  ::: Radon, the gas emitted from phosphogypsum, trails just smoking to rank as the second-leading cause of lung cancer, and is linked to about 21,000 lung cancer deaths every year in the U.S., according to the EPA. The agency also says it's the "single greatest environmental source of radiation exposure."  

[leaheburke]

What’s it like living in Florida?

[bari-saxxy]

thinking about how in ELEMENTARY school they took us to. Cracker Country. and told us how the florida crackers were called that because they cracked their whips. and they just said that with their whole chests nothing wrong with it. and then we churned butter and ate it on crackers and went home

[violetstar-writes]

what it's like to live in florida during the fall/winter

[delgrosso]

It’s so cold in Florida, iguanas are falling from trees

Green iguanas are an exotic species in Florida known for eating through landscaping and digging burrows that undermine infrastructure.

BRB gotta shovel the iguanas off my driveway.

[seren-pen]

Sooo, I'm kind of living the dream this afternoon. Got an interesting book, a warm kitty and puppy, and it's raining outside. Sure, I'm unemployed and living with my mother, but I will take all the good, small things i can!

[grammatically-incoherent]

the good place vs jacksonville, florida

→ We should all meet up in Jacksonville. My house is right on the water. It didn’t used to be, but the whole city is a swamp, and it’s sinking into the ocean… We might not want to wait a whole year. It’s sinking really fast.