There are two paths ahead for the Everglades.
One is carved by Big Sugar and its lobbyists — driven by profit, not the public good. It’s a future where the value of cane fields are inflated by federal handouts, and you pay more at the grocery store so billionaire sugar barons can get richer.
The other path is grounded in truth and science. It’s a future where restoration — not exploitation — guides our decisions. A future where we Rescue the River of Grass to protect the water, wilderness and people whose lives depend on it. It’s the path Friends of the Everglades has blazed since our founding by Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
We are at that fork in the road right now.
Big Sugar’s 8,600-acre Southland rock mine threatens land critical to Everglades restoration. And behind closed doors in Congress, sugar lobbyists have slipped an ugly favor into President Trump’s “big beautiful bill” — language that would enrich sugar’s profits at the risk of Everglades progress.
This is an urgent moment. We need your voice.
📞 First, call Sen. Rick Scott at 202-224-5274 and Sen. Ashley Moody at 202-224-3041 and tell them: Reject sugar’s sweetheart deal in the federal budget bill.
👉 Then, be part of the solution by signing the petition to Rescue the River of Grass. Ask your friends to do the same.
Friends of the Everglades has faced powerful polluters before — and won. With your help, we can do it again.
