Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection strayed from guidelines in Piney Point spill – Bradenton Herald
PALMETTO — The Florida Department of Environmental Protection had always required a protective layer of dirt over gypsum stacks to prevent cracking and leaks — until Piney Point. But then…
Florida – How the wind saved Florida from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill – Mother Nature Network
Florida might have been saved by the wind. At the time of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the spring of 2010, computer models predicted that the 200 million gallons…
Florida – Winds Played Important Role in Keeping Oil Away from South Florida – Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily — The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in spring 2010 is the largest oil spill in the history of the United States, with more than 200 million gallons of crude…
Florida – RESTORE deal: Escambia could see $100 million from BP fines – Pensacola Business Journal
More than two years after the BP oil spill ravaged the Gulf Coast, lawmakers reached a deal Wednesday that could bring billions to boost the region’s economy and restore its…
Louisiana – Soil dredged from Mississippi River may be used to rebuild marsh – NOLA.com
Amid plans to close a controversial freshwater diversion that appeared to be building new land at West Bay, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, the Army Corps of Engineers…
Florida – Experts: It’s not just beach condos; glow from inland lights disorients turtle hatchlings – Palm Beach Post
Lights glowing miles west of Palm Beach County’s coast are threatening to disorient sea turtle hatchlings as they try to make their way to the water. Sea turtles rely on…
Florida – UWF: Most oil from BP spill gone from Gulf along Panhandle – Pensacola Business Journal
Two years after tar balls from the Deepwater Horizon oil well explosion began washing up on Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key, there’s good news: Most of the oil is gone…
Florida – Saving sea turtles could mean lowered lights — miles from shore – Sun-Sentinel
PALM BEACH COUNY, FL – Dimming the lights along the coastline hasn’t been enough to save endangered sea turtles, so now plans are afoot to lower the lights at everything…
Florida – Biscayne National Park’s Proposed Marine Reserve Drawing Criticism From Some Quarters – National Parks Traveler
Biscayne National Park is a somewhat unusual national park, one located in a heavily urbanized area of south Florida and in which more than 90 percent of the actual park…
Alabama – Was test on oil from Orange Beach dredging incident reliable? – Gulf Coast News Today
ORANGE BEACH, AL – Test or no test, Philip West with the city of Orange Beach still thinks there’s a tar mat in Perdido Pass. Maybe more than one. The…
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