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The Florida bill would prevent oil drilling near Northwest Florida’s Apalachicola River and Apalachicola Bay.

The judge says the Florida Department of Environmental Protection did not adequately consider the sensitive nature of the area.

The bill requires the Florida DEP to use a “balancing test” for proposed drilling permits within one mile of rivers and lakes.

The Florida bill would ban oil and gas drilling within 10 miles of the state’s three National Estuarine Research Reserves.

Panels in the Florida House and Senate approved proposals aimed at shielding environmentally sensitive areas from oil drilling.

Apalachicola Riverkeeper, said the drilling plan poses an “unacceptably high” environmental risk to the nearby Apalachicola River.

The St. Petersburg City Council approved the bonds necessary to finance the $1.3 billion ballpark; the next step is a Pinellas bond vote.

A judge scheduled a hearing in December in a legal fight about a plan to drill for oil and gas in part of rural Northwest Florida.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection rejected a proposal to drill an oil well in Big Cypress Swamp in Collier County.

A judge backed the Department of Environmental Protection’s denial of a plan to drill an oil well in Florida's Big Cypress.

Climate activists want the Biden administration to make sure there are no new offshore oil and gas leases included in the DOI five-year plan.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has given a Texas company a permit to drill six exploratory wells for oil and gas in the Panhandle; but environmental groups say that’s a bad idea. WMNF interviewed...