Press Release: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 – 2:00pm Effective immediately, in response to air quality monitoring performed by Escambia County, the Florida Department of Health in Escambia County (FDOH-Escambia) is rescinding the…
Category: Environment
BP petitions SCOTUS
British oil giant, BP, petitioned on Friday the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in its battle over claim payments resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. BP…
DEP hammers Rolling Hills dump
On Thursday, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection revoked the permit for the Rolling Hills Construction and Demolition Debris Disposal Facility and said that it will file a lawsuit against the owner,…
Ingram negotiates agreement between Escambia County and ECUA on recycling
Today, Representative Clay Ingram released the following statement regarding a potential recycling agreement between Escambia County and the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority (ECUA). “I am pleased to announce that after a series…
County report: Wedgewood Pit Tour Video
On July 18, Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May and State Representative Mike Hill toured the Wedgewood neighborhood to get a firsthand look at the various pit and landfill projects currently in operation…
Floridians overwhelmingly are concerned about climate change
Marc Caputo of the Miami Herald reports that nearly seven in 10 likely Florida voters are concerned about climate change and nearly 80 percent want limits on carbon pollution from power plants,…
Weekend Buzz: Pitiful County, Eric gets his record and Robo attacks begin in District 2 (audio)
Pitiful Escambia The most profitable illegal business in Escambia County appears to be dirt. The Board of County Commissioners learned last week that only one borrow pit has a permit to operate…
Tour de Force for Hill, May and Wedgewood
The tour of the Wedgewood area landfills and pits yesterday was a perfect example of what can happen when state and county officials work together on an issue. For the first in…
Health Department issues air quality alert for Wedgewood neighborhood
Health Alert: Wedgewood Air Quality Effective immediately, in response to air quality monitoring, the Florida Department of Health in Escambia County (FDOH-Escambia) is issuing a health alert for the area surrounding the…
Wedgewood tour attracts attention
Wedgewood residents hope seeing is believing By Duwayne Escobedo The predominantly black Wedgewood community organized a nearly two-hour, two-bus tour Tuesday of C&D landfills and borrow pits surrounding their neighborhood. They hoped…
State and county officials to tour Wedgewood area dumps
State Rep. Mike Hill and Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May will tour next Tuesday the various borrow pits, construction and demolition (C&D) disposal facilities and mines within District 3, as well as…
BP employees lawsuit over BP oil disaster revived
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans revived yesterday a lawsuit in which participants in four BP Plc employee retirement savings plans claimed they were deceived into buying and…
RESTORE update at Lunch ‘n Learn
On Friday, August 1, 2014 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. join the League of Women Voters for their brown bag lunch and learn summer series at the Downtown Library, 239 N….
Wedgewood gets legal representation
They will not be ignored. Wedgewood residents have complained to the state and county about the construction debris pits that surround their neighborhood. Now they have agreed to legal representation. The residents…
Climate Change debate comes to Pensacola
Press Release: 350 Pensacola calls for the Pensacola City Council to support proposed Climate Change Task Force resolution. The Pensacola City Council is set to consider a resolution to create a Climate…
Hot City, Cool City Walking Tour, July 19
Join 350 Pensacola for a midsummer stroll through downtown Pensacola. Participants will explore old and new ways that cities can adapt to the higher temperatures and heavier rainfall of our changing climate….
Longleaf dump has worse environmental record than Rolling Hills dump
Longleaf C&D Disposal Facility began accepting waste the fall of 2006. In just two years, monitoring wells detected problems with the groundwater –vinyl chloride, aluminum, iron and sulfate above the Primary and…
350 Pensacola: Best approaches to communicate about climate change
Chamblin’s talk addresses the best approaches to communicating about climate change. What: “Public Opinion, Politics, and the Challenge of Communicating Climate Change,†a Talk by Larry Chamblin Where: Bayview Senior Resource Center,…
Wedgewood community has rich history, meeting tonight
Since “A Shame Before God” was published, several residents in the Wedgewood, Rolling Hills and Olive Heights neighborhood have shared stories about growing up there. Wanda Shakir said that the majority of…
Fish Hatchery and Pensacola Beach Ferry Service make final list
Today the Federal and State natural resources Trustees released the final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) and Phase III Early Restoration Plan (ERP) for the Gulf Coast Early Natural Resources Damage Assessment…
