This is a fish story, but not the bragging kind. Twenty-five boats competed last week in the 2012 Outcast Cobia Invitational. After three days of fishing, the total catch was anything but…
Category: Environment
Sheen Seen in Gulf
After spotting a sheen in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, a federal agency has required to Royal Dutch Shell to send down a remote submersible to check the sea floor for leaking…
Sen. Nelson Talks RESTORE & More
Senator Bill Nelson checked in with local political and community leaders this morning in Pensacola, spending most of the meeting discussing the RESTORE Act. The Florida senator said that the effort to…
Tea Party upset over fracking comments
Mike Papantonio and my exchange over BP leasing land in Ohio for fracking caught the attention of the Tea Party,or at least something called “NorthEast Tea Party Patriots.” A Brian Maloney sees…
Greener, Leaner Escambia
After a year-long effort to reduce its energy consumption, Escambia County has earned its star—its Energy Star. The Escambia County Central Office Complex has been awarded a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…
BP Filing Flurry
There have been several legal filings lately regarding the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP wants evidence from the feds. An ex-NASA engineer wants money. And the region’s Asian…
London W1 Goes Beyond Earth Day
The Aveda company doesn’t just celebrate Earth Day, but dedicates the whole month of April to raising environmental awareness. London W1 Hair Salon and Studio, a local Aveda concept salon is doing…
RESTORE Act Dropped
The RESTORE Act is adrift again. While lawmakers had attach the act to a failed transportation bill, the House this week decided to pass a temporary transportation bill sans RESTORE. Introduced last…
Another Deep Water Deepwater?
For nearly a week, workers have scrambled to stop a gas leak at a drilling platform in the North Sea’s Elgin field. The scene has similarities to the 2010 oil spill in…
Public Meeting on Saufley Field C&D
Escambia County Commissioner Wilson Robertson will be hosting a District I town hall meeting April 10. The commissioner will be discussing the upcoming construction and closure of the Saufley Field Construction and…
Bayou Tourists
Over the next couple of days, volunteers from Tourism Cares will be working to restore native vegetation along the shoreline in Bayview Park. The volunteers will be working in conjunction with the…
Clean Up Your Act
The Santa Rosa Clean Community System will participate in the nation-wide, Great American Clean-Up. The beautifying begins on April 4 and April 5 at the Paint Your Heart Out event by the…
Dolphins in Bayou Texar
It’s not something you see everyday. Pensacola City Councilman Larry B. Johnson had never seen it before. “I’ve lived on Bayou Texar since 1989,†the city councilman said. “Since I’ve lived here,…
A Clean & Green Pensacola
Pensacola’s Keep Beautiful local affiliate, Clean & Green has partnered with Escambia County Parks and Recreation to initiate an Adopt-A-Park program. Through the program, organizations, groups, schools and neighborhood associations can adopt…
Deepwater Leaking?
Nearly two years after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, pilot Bonny Schumaker is still seeing what looks like oil streaming from the Deepwater Horizon site. “It didn’t take any time…
Complaint against GSI Recycling
Here is the lawsuit that was filed today against GSI Recycling. Can you imagine how bad this would have been if Friendship Missionary had actually bought the school property or if Habitat…
Lawsuit filed over metal shredder
Attorney Bob Kerrigan told the Escambia School Board today at its workshop that his firm is filing a lawsuit against the scrap yard near Oakcrest Elementary School and the closed Brownsville Middle…
Spring Cleaning
As part of the Great American Cleanup, local residents are invited to help tidy up the waterfront along Bayfront Parkway. Participants will meet at the Hawkshaw Missing Children’s Memorial, across from Veterans…
Mississippi River Groups File Dual Legal Actions on Pollution that Fuels Gulf Dead Zone
(New Orleans, LA)— Today environmental groups challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) refusal to address a critical pollution problem it has acknowledged for decades. The two legal actions filed today seek action…
The End of a Dead End?
In an effort to create a more walkable downtown, Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward is looking to reconnect Government Street to Ninth Avenue near Bayfront Parkway. The mayor will take the issue before…
