Environmentalists are at the Pensacola downtown library, waving signs and singing songs. They are protesting an oil company’s request to waive emission standards for a Gulf of Mexico drilling operation. The environmentalists…
Tag: Air Quality
Local EPA Hearing on Gulf Drilling Permit
The Environmental Protection Agency has scheduled a public hearing on BHP Billiton Petroleum’s request to waive current emission regulations in pursuit of oil and natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico’s DeSoto…
Sen. Gaetz gives Disaster Update
For Immediate Release June 22, 2010 4:30 p.m. CST Latest Oil Spill Developments Dear Neighbor, As dime to five inch-sized tar balls and tar “patties†continue to slowly inundate the Northwest Florida…
Cancer and air quality
Both the IN and PNJ have written about cancer this week. We wrote on a Baldwin County mother’s fight to have the state study high cancer rates in her community ( Cancer…