Tag: oil spill

During this week’s Escambia County Commission Committee of the Whole, the board will discuss the RESTORE Act advisory committee’s purpose and role. The following is…

Escambia County’s RESTORE Act advisory committee is almost in place. The nine-member body is on the table for Thursday’s county commission meeting. Commissioners are assembling…

A collection of local environmental organizations have selected Christian Wagley to represent environmental concerns on the Escambia County Commission’s RESTORE Act advisory committee. Wagley, who…

The Escambia County Commission is expected this afternoon to sign on to the latest formula agreed to for the county-level RESTORE Act pot. “It isn’t…

Escambia County has issued a list of organizations that have, to date, met the qualifications to participate in the selection of an environmental representative to…

Rep. Jeff Miller’s (R-Fla.) chief of staff said this afternoon that the congressman was still assessing the recently announced $4.5 billion settlement with BP over…

The public will have the opportunity tonight to review and comment on a recently released plan from the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment trustees….

After three days of inspecting the Macondo well, BP has announced that the current oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico is likely due to…

Two members of the U.S. Congress have requested that BP turn over all information pertaining to the current oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico….

For more than a month, a persistent oil sheen has been seen in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon…

The U.S. government and BP are in settlement talks over how much the oil company will be paying as a result of the 2010 spill…

The Escambia County Commission started down a long road this morning. It is a road potentially paved with many millions in treasure. When the federal…