Associated PressJune 15, 2022
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Biden directed Energy Secretary to convene emergency meeting and consult with the National Petroleum Council.
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Associated PressJune 15, 2022Associated PressDecember 4, 2021
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Florida is getting nearly $33 million for one new project.
Associated PressApril 20, 2020
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From Texas to Florida, life changed forever after the “summer of oil.”
Staff ReportsApril 5, 2020
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The company is offering 50-cents off at the pump.
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 8, 2019
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Congress members Charlie Crist, Kathy Castor, Francis Rooney and Vern Buchanan reintroduced Tuesday the Florida Coastal Protection Act seeking to ban offshore drilling around the state. The bill would make the current federal moratorium permanent. The current ban is set to expire in June of 2022. The reintroduced act would also extend the ban into […]
Phil AmmannJune 2, 2017
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Northwest Florida counties are going to finally get a share of money given to the state for damages related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Gov. Rick Scott on Friday signed a bill (HB 7007) that guarantees the distribution of $300 million to eight counties hardest hit by the […]
Gary FineoutMay 2, 2017
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After keeping the money locked up for nearly a year, Florida legislators have finally agreed on a plan to hand out millions of dollars given the state for damages related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Florida Senate on Monday voted unanimously for a bill that would guarantee […]
Staff ReportsMarch 16, 2017
3min336
A House panel has approved legislation to make sure settlement money from the 2010 BP oil spill stays in the Florida Panhandle. The House Select Committee on Triumph Gulf Coast passed a proposed committee bill that, among other things, requires 75 percent of all payments that Florida receives from the settlement agreement between the five […]
Ryan RayAugust 24, 2015
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Former Senate President Don Gaetz — fresh from bad publicity for his role in the 2011 redistricting fiasco, when he was chairman of his chamber’s map-making committee — accentuated the positive Sunday in an email to his constituents in his sprawling Senate District 1, which runs from Walton to Jackson counties in the western Panhandle. Legislators […]
Shannon NickinsonJuly 21, 20156min176
It’s time to look at the BP glass as half full. The federal judge who was to mete out financial punishment to the British oil giant for its part in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in April 2010 has made his ruling. Now it’s up to us to make what we will of it. Generally, the […]