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…
Category: Environment
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…