Keep Pensacola Beautiful and YourTEK Professionals will be recognizing America Recycles Day on Friday, November 15 by collecting hard-to-recycle items from residents and businesses in Escambia County for a free recycling day….
Category: Environment
EPA partially deletes Pensacola Superfund site
PENSACOLA, Fla.  (Oct. 29, 2019) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 the agency deleted all or part of 27 sites from Superfund’s National…
Regional Roundup on Saturday
The Escambia County Waste Services Department will host the next Regional Roundup on Saturday, Oct. 26 from 8 a.m. until noon at Blue Angels Elementary School, 1551 Dog Track Road. Please see…
Gaetz: Can the Gulf Coast triumph? Yes
Viewpoint BY DON GAETZ Northwest Florida has taken it hard in the gut from the forces of nature and the folly of man. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill was the worst man-made…
Looking for IP’s Monster Under the Bed
Following lengthy criticism of local press coverage concerning the environmental impacts International Paper’s operation has on Perdido Bay, a pair of Escambia County commissioners are paying to conduct additional water tests in…
History lesson: Nineteen years ago, IP promised no discharges into waterways
PENSACOLA: In 2000, International Paper bought Champion International and acquired the Pensacola Mill in Cantonment as part of the deal. IP officials pledged to get the mill to meet the state’s wastewater…
More thoughts on IP environmental issues
PENSACOLA: This week, I received this from John Nixon of Phenix Environmental Response, LLC in response to our article “Can IP Lower Environmental Bar?” Nixon points out that IP’s Pensacola Mill is…
A Day for the Dunes, Sept. 28
NAVARRE: Dune Doctors, the Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center (FCOLC) and the Navarre Beach Marine Science Center will host A Day for the Dunes Oct. 28
Should FDEP cut IP a break?
PENSACOLA–Following the explosion at the International Paper mill in Cantonment in 2017, Jackie Lane began to notice something different in Perdido Bay. “It just immediately springs to life in two weeks,†Lane…
Concerns raised over International Paper bond hearing omission
PENSACOLA–The exchange, hidden within the confines of a TEFRA bond hearing, was so surreally weird as to be absurd. It involved a back-and-forth with Escambia County Director of Natural Resources Management Department…
Pensacola Climate Strike releases list of speakers and performers
PENSACOLA—Join 350 Pensacola and millions around the world for a global climate strike. On September 20, people will walk out of school, work, and home to join young climate strikers demanding an…
Pensacola to assess athletic field chemicals
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The city of Pensacola’s Environmental Advisory Board will be looking into exactly what chemicals are used to care for municipal athletic fields and parks. A request to explore…
Time Machine: BP, The Beast and Olbermann
In our July 18 issue, I write about how our newspaper garnered national attention when we became affiliated with The Daily Beast. When BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on Tuesday, April 20,…
Andrade town hall: Laws, Learning and Sewage
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Three of the region’s elected officials held court in Escambia High School’s library Tuesday evening for the Westside Town Hall. During the nearly two-hour affair, residents were able…
Presser: Water bottles and drive-bys
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly There was considerable ground to cover Monday morning during his weekly press conference, but first Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson needed a drink of water—from his shiny new, blue…
What will happen to Pensacola’s Climate Change report?
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Last year, the city of Pensacola’s Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Task Force delivered a report outlining various efforts that could be made to address the effects of climate…
Kids on Climate Change
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Friday afternoon, in downtown Pensacola’s Plaza Ferdinand, local youth will gather to raise awareness about the issue of climate change. The gathering will mirror similar such events —…
Report: Offshore Drilling ‘Still Dirty and Dangerous’
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Environmental organization Oceana released a report on Wednesday that the group says finds offshore oil drilling to be a precarious proposition. The report runs counter to a narrative…
County to receive $16 million in NRDA funds
The Florida Trustee Implementation Group approved its Final Restoration Plan 1, which selects 23 projects at a total estimated cost of $61 million. The final plan is consistent with the Trustees’ Programmatic Restoration Plan and selects projects for…
Subra details environmental health concerns
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Environmental scientist and watchdog Wilma Subra is fairly familiar with Escambia County. More specifically, she’s familiar with some of the area’s scarier environmental ghosts and statistics. Take the…
