Category: Environment
Coastal Systems Training begins Oct. 2
UF/IFAS Escambia Extension is offering a Coastal Systems Training course open to anyone interested in obtaining a hands-on, in-depth education about Florida’s natural environment. The…
Daily Outtakes: FDEP plan for hotels and golf in state parks criticized
On Monday, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) announced the launch of its 2024-25 Great Outdoors Initiative. In addition to increasing the number of…
Fight Gears Up Over Oil Drilling Permit in Northwest Florida
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — A legal battle is moving forward over a plan to drill for oil and gas…
The Blue Trees are coming to Foo Foo Fest
The University of West Florida Historic Trust was awarded a grant by Foo Foo Fest and ACE to present The Blue Trees, an environmental art…
Daily Outtakes: Pensacola area sea level risen 6.7 inches
A Washington Post analysis has found that the Pensacola area’s sea level rose 6.7 inches from 2010 to 2023. Using satellite data, the Post found…
Century fails citizens again
NorthEscambia.com reports the Town of Century failed at one of its key duties. The town did not properly monitor their water system for several compounds…
Pensacola Energy gets $10.1 million from Feds
Pensacola Energy was awarded $10.1 million in federal grant funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to replace unprotected bare steel mains with polyethylene pipe…
Daily Outtakes: Florida air is cleaner
The newest American Lung Association “State of the Air” report shows that Florida cities’ air is cleaner in comparison to many metropolises in other states….
PETA says stop tossing live mullet
Yesterday, PETA sent a letter to John McInnis III, co-owner of The Flora-Bama Lounge, Package, & Oyster Bar, urging him to bring a wave of…
Daily Outtakes: EPA plan for American Cresote site blasted
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General has determined the EPA’s oversight and implementation of institutional controls for the clean-up of the American…
Daily Outtakes: Milton finally gets wastewater permit
On Thursday afternoon, the City of Milton announced that it had received the DEP permit to build two spray fields on city-owned property on Jeff…
Daily Outtakes: 2024 Hurricane Season could be ‘explosive’
AccuWeather meteorologists are forecasting 20-25 named storms across the Atlantic basin in 2024, including 8-12 hurricanes, four to seven major hurricanes, and four to six…
Pensacola and Perdido Bays may get national status
The Senate unanimously passed U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary of National Significance Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection…
Real News 2/16/24
ECUA collaborated with the Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary Program on a recycling education campaign in 2023. This campaign featured a newly updated sticker design,…
Official announcement on City recycling
The City of Pensacola is opening a new monitored recycling drop-off site beginning Saturday, Nov. 4 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., located at 2759…
Presser: Mayor seeking to conserve Bay Bluffs
By Tom St. Myer At his weekly press conference, Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves announced he will be meeting with Conservation Florida on Oct. 19 about…
Estuary Program hands out $273K
The Pensacola & Perdido Bays Estuary Program (PPBEP) awarded $273,000 to local educational institutions, non-profits, and governments to support action projects to help restore and protect our waters. …
Presser Takeaways: Recycling, Bluffs and Baptist
At his weekly press conference this morning, Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves said the UWF Haas Center has 1,556 eligible responses to its residents satisfaction survey…
New Pensacola Sanitation Collection Schedule
Mayor D.C. Reeves announced the two-day pickup schedule for Pensacola residents: Monday Customers Monday: Garbage and yard waste Thursday: Garbage only Tuesday Customers Tuesday: Garbage…
Daily Outtakes: Good News, Bad News and Wahoos
Good News: Another Florida Disaster Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday begins on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, and ends on Friday, Sept 8. You can purchase qualifying…
