The following post has popped up on the City of Pensacola’s Transparent Pensacola The emphasis is theirs. Government Street Stormwater pond contamination concerns City of Pensacola officials are aware of the misinformation…
Category: Environment
City of Pensacola gets snippy
City of Pensacola PIO Vernon Stewart would not provide Inweekly reporter Duwayne Escobedo the most recent soil test results. He told the reporter that the newspaper would have to submit the request…
A lot of activity in the Pensacola Tanyards, Commissioner May requests construction specs
Dr. Gloria Horning called. She is onsite with Emerald Coastkeeper Laurie Murphy. It appears fencing may be going up and inspectors are checking the soil and water. Meanwhile, Commissioner Lumon May has…
Horning disputes City of Pensacola 3-1-1 report
The City of Pensacola PIO, Vernon Stewart, told Inweekly today, “Our 311 rep said that the one person who called 311, now believed to be Dr. Horning in hindsight, did not leave…
Source says Government St. soil not contaminated
Inweekly has spoken with a source familiar with the Government Street stormwater project who says the soil being removed from the site is not contaminated by the pollutants coming from the old…
How to destroy a Pensacola neighborhood or ‘You oughta see all the rats’
Community activist Dr. Gloria Horning summed her feelings about what is happening in the Tanyards neighborhood only two blocks from Pensacola City Hall in four words: “It just never ends.” The “it”…
Tanyard residents upset about Pensacola stormwater project
Since May, the City of Pensacola has worked on building a huge stormwater pond on West Government Street, two blocks from City Hall next to the closed Corrine Jones Park. Residents have…
Clean up Carpenter Creek [podcast]
This week, I interviewed Emerald Coastkeeper Laurie Murphy about her efforts to clean up Carpenter Creek. She and Councilwoman Sherri Myers had a tremendous response to their Town Hall meeting on the…
Levin Papantonio honored for Environmental litigation
The Law Firm of Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Rafferty, & Proctor has won the Special Litigation (Environmental) category in the 2016 Elite Trial Lawyers recognition program. The Levin Papantonio Law Firm was…
350 Pensacola takes on Trump and the environment, Nov. 29
PENSACOLA—Donald J. Trump is president-elect of the United States, bringing concern to many that much of the work to protect and preserve our natural environment will be undone. 350 Pensacola presents our…
Why is Gulf of Mexico in five-year drilling plan?
Mary Gutierrez of Earth Action and other local environmentalists are concerned the Department of Interior has kept the Gulf Of Mexico in its five-year plan for oil and gas drilling’ ——————- FLORIDA…
EPA partners with Escambia County to clean up Bayou Chico
The U.S. EPA Gulf of Mexico Program recently announced that the Escambia County Board of County Commissioners has received a $295,500 cooperative agreement for the project “Bayou Chico Water Quality Improvements.†J….