North Florida environmentalists and its shellfish industry scored a “massive” legislative victory with final passage of ...

DeSantis renewing the rural area designation for affected counties. The "Kill the Drill" movement and its allies are hoping ...

The Department of Environmental Protection did not adequately consider the sensitive nature of the area, Judge Lawrence P. Stevenson wrote. Saying the Florida Department of Environmental ...

Florida House unanimously approves bill banning oil drilling near Apalachicola River. The bill now moves to the Senate, where a similar but less restrictive bill awaits. Both bills aim to protect ...

Florida legislators passed a bill banning oil drilling near the Apalachicola Bay to protect ... or about the final 52 miles of the Apalachicola River, internationally recognized for an unusual ...

Stevenson wrote that the proposed site is within the 100-year floodplain of the Apalachicola River, is within a mile of two ponds that are hydrologically connected to the river and is surrounded ...

The "Kill the Drill" movement and its allies are hoping their efforts to ban oil drilling along the Apalachicola River can handle a last-minute knuckleball-like amendment that a state senator has ...