By Duwayne Escobedo, Inweekly reporter LaFanette Soles-Wood demanded the cleanup of contamination from the Rolling Hills C&D Recycling site continue. The Wedgewood native blames the site for trouble breathing and stinging eyes….
Category: Environment
Reflections on Carpenter’s Creek
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –Ora Wills paints a vivid picture of living near Carpenter’s Creek before that area of Pensacola was developed into the landscape of malls and hospitals and big box…
Buzz: Triumph appointee
Who will be the next appointee to the Triumph Gulf Coast Board? Several names are being batted around: Frank White: former state representative who had made an impressive run at being the…
Public weighs in on Gulf Power coal ash permits
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The public will have a chance Wednesday to weigh in on a federal permit pertaining to a Gulf Power coal ash landfill used by the company’s Crist Plant…
Mixed Bag at Triumph
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –Interests vying for funding from Triumph Gulf Coast found mixed fortunes when the organization’s board met in Fort Walton Beach Dec. 7. While the city of Pensacola will…
Styrofoam cups, plastic bottles may be tossed From City Hall
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Pensacola may be taking a small, simple, somewhat symbolic step onto a greener path. Members of the city’s Environmental Advisory Board unanimously passed a motion Thursday to request…
Eleven Mile Creek Basin project to receive $268,000 grant
Congressman Matt Gaetz today announced an Escambia County stormwater project will receive grant money from the U.S. Treasury Department. “The Office of Gulf Coast Restoration in the Department of the Treasury plans…
Grover Robinson speaks out against offshore drilling [video]
On Feb. 8, a group of local environmentalist traveled to Tallahassee to attend the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s public meeting concerning the recently released proposal for the 2019-2024 National Outer Continental…
DEP opposes offshore drilling
Today, in advance of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s public meeting on the Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas leasing program today in Tallahassee, Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Noah…
Podcast: Fish migrated back into Carpenter’s Creek
On Monday, Emerald Coastkeeper Laurie Murphy reported that she had seen hundreds, if not thousands of mullet mixed with bream and bass in Carpenter’s Creek west of the 12th Avenue bridge. She…
Gaetz: Soup not ‘fully cooked’ on offshore drilling [podcast]
On Jan. 4, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke that the White House plans to allow offshore drilling for crude oil and natural gas off the coast of Florida. The decision…
Gulf Power tackles Rechargeable Battery technology
By Duwayne Escobedo INWEEKLY Think of rechargeable batteries like the ones that power your cell phones, laptops or electric cars. Gulf Power is testing a huge rechargeable battery at its McCrary Training…
Climate Change: With or Without Paris Accord – tonight
Press release: President Trump says that he is pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord and looking to negotiate a “better deal†for our country. But even without support from…
City of Pensacola blames ECUA for raw sewage in Tanyard
Yesterday, ECUA executive director Steve Sorrell blamed the raw sewage flowing on DeVilliers Street one block west of Pensacola City Hall on the failure of the City of Pensacola stormwater system. Inweekly…
Emerald CoastKeeper on ‘Pensacola Speaks’ today
Emerald Coastkeeper Laurie Murphy will give an update on the latest developments in her investigation of the raw sewage that flooded the Tanyard area one block west of Pensacola City Hall. Listen…
ECUA confirms raw sewage caused by City of Pensacola stormwater failure
Inweekly obtained this email between ECUA board member Lois Benson and ECUA Executive Director Steve Sorrell. We had earlier reported that the human waste on Devilliers Street may have been caused by…
Reports of human waste flowing in the Tanyard (update)
Dr. Gloria Horning, who lives one block west of Pensacola City Hall on DeVilliers Street in the Tanyard neighborhood, reported late yesterday afternoon, “I’m at the corner of DeVilliers and Zaragossa. The…
Dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico predicted to hit record size
Each year a hypoxic water mass forms in bottom waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental shelf. The low oxygen conditions threaten living resources including humans that depend on fish, shrimp…
EPA awards grant for Community Maritime Park brownfield
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) selected 172 communities across the country including five in Florida to receive funding for brownfield site revitalization to help local governments redevelop vacant and unused…
Citizens celebrate Carpenter’s Creek efforts
By Sammi Sontag INWEEKLY Locals celebrated and simultaneously discussed Escambia County’s purchase of the 8.5-acre Carpenter’s Creek headwater property and restoration processes over pizza and cake at a town hall meeting hosted…
