Category: Environment
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…
Takeaways from Mayor’s presser
Finding $20 Million to Demo Baptist Hospital At his weekly presser on Tuesday, Mayor D.C. Reeves said that he has met with Baptist Hospital leaders…
Pensacola recycling update
The City of Pensacola is evaluating changes to recycling and sanitation services for City Sanitation customers to improve services and minimize ineffective recycling efforts. The…
Daily Outtakes: Navarre Park warning, TSA PreCheck
Don’t Drink or Swim in the Water The Florida Department of Health in Santa Rosa County (DOH-Santa Rosa) has issued a water quality advisory for…
Real News podcasts: Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons, Christian Wagley and Ronnie Joyce
Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons talks about how he made Bristol Park a special event zone to protect the neighborhood. He also discusses gun violence…
First Sea Turtle hatches of the season
Pensacola Beach, Perdido Key Celebrate First Sea Turtle Hatches of the Season – Escambia County is pleased to celebrate the first sea turtle hatches of…
Who Said What – Tuesday, July 25
Mayor D. C. Reeves covered the dropping of mandatory curb recycling on the show, but he also discussed the machete attack and changing the city’s…
Plastics are hazardous: Public Forum
Live on Facebook at facebook.com/earthethics/ today at 1 p.m. watch a public forum on the hazards of plastics and why it is important the State…
Another $15 million coming to Escambia County
Escambia County is pleased to announce over $15 million in state funding has been awarded to the county from the Resilient Florida Grant Program. The…
City Gas more eco-friendly
Mayor D.C. Reeves announced at his weekly presser this morning that the city’s compressed natural gas vehicles have now switched to renewable natural gas, contributing…
Community Environmental Grants
The Pensacola & Perdido Bays Estuary Program (PPBEP) opened its 2023-2024 Community Grant Program on Wednesday, July 5. This program will fund action projects that…
Meet Dayna Reggero
Award-winning filmmaker Dayna Reggero of the Climate Listening Project brings her latest documentary Gulf Coast Love Story to Pensacola on Wednesday, July 19. Healthy Gulf…
