Category: Environment
Another blow dealt to Rolling Hills landfill
On Friday, March 13, Special Magistrate with the Office of Environmental Enforcement R. Todd Harris ruled against the management of the Rolling Hills Construction and…
PS podcast: Hovind trial, Gifted students and Manning arrest
This podcast contains the remainder of the Thursday, March 12 interviews on Pensacola Speaks. Attorney Chris Klotz offers insights into the Hovind trial. Debbie Dunkearly…
Water conservation plan needed for the state
When I attended the AP preview press conference in Tallahassee, the need for the state legislature to pass a comprehensive water plan was pushed by…
Pensacola Speaks podcast: Fracking in Florida and Escambia County
On Friday, I interviewed Kim Ross of Rethink Energy Florida on fracking in Florida and Escambia County. She will be in Pensacola today for the…
BP drops attempt to fire claim administrator
NOLA.com is reporting that BP said today that it will drop its bid to oust oil spill claims administrator Patrick Juneau “in recognition of improvement…
Lion fish threat to fishing industry getting attention
Yesterday I interviewed Adam Putnam, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture. We did discuss growing problem of lion fish invading Florida waters “Lion fish virtually endemic in…
Pensacola Speaks: Prison reform and Trauma intervention
On today’s show we will Allison DeFoor and Deanna Smith. Dr. DeFoor is a seventh-generation Floridian who is an attorney and Episcopal priest working in…
Judge upholds FDEP revocation of Rolling Hills permit
Today, Administrative Law Judge D.R. Alexander issued a Recommended Order in the Rolling Hills matter that upheld the Florida Department of Envinronmental Protection’s (FDEP) request…
Permaculture: A Hands-on Solution to Climate Change, March 10
Learn how permaculture may help us transition to a more healthy, resilient, and sustainable community in this talk led by Renee Perry and Tom Garner….
Underhill holds community meeting on District 2 projects
Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill and the Public Works Department will host a community meeting on Thursday, February 26, at 5:30 p.m., at the Lexington…
County gets an even larger grant for stormwater projects. Federal dollars are rolling into area
The Escambia Board of County Commissioners will be receiving a $5.4 million FEMA grant for flood control improvements. The plan, which was approved last night…
Hayward lands another grant for city
The City of Pensacola has been awarded a $940,000 Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service…
DEP has $6 million available for stormwater projects
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is soliciting grant applications for projects that reduce or eliminate nonpoint source pollution. Nonpoint source pollution, such as stormwater…
GREEN FIRE Screening and Discussion. Feb. 10 (trailer)
A 30-minute excerpt of the documentary film, Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time, will be shown and discussed at the…
Weekend Buzz: Children, Cyber Warriors, LeaP and Wedgwood
The long-awaited decision for Ascension to build a regional children’s hospital in Pensacola has been made. The daily newspaper reports in its Monday edition that…
Road to Resiliency continues Thursday night
Escambia County and the city of Pensacola slowly, methodically and deliberately move ahead with their stormwater management plans and projects to prevent, or at least…
District set to sell Brownsville Middle School to near scrap yard
School Superintendent Malcolm Thomas has found a buyer for Brownsville Middle School, which has been closed since 2007. G.S.I. Brokerage, Inc., a sister corporation of…
DEP sets up real-time monitoring of Apalachicola Bay
The Department of Environmental Protection now has real-time monitoring platforms in Apalachicola Bay. Maybe at some point such platforms could be installed in the waterways…
People of Wedgwood (video)
The story of Wedgewood is not one of corporations and government bureaucracies. It’s the story of people, people who have seen loved ones suffer while…
Raw emotions voiced at Wedgewood meeting on pits
The residents of Wedgewood weren’t much interested in the stricter ordinances being proposed to regulate borrow pits and construction & debris landfills. No, they made…
