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Michael MolineMarch 23, 2017

The Florida House voted Thursday unanimously to direct two-thirds of the $400 million the state is due from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster to the worst-affected counties in the Panhandle. HB 7077 requires 75 percent of all payments that Florida receives from the settlement agreement between the five Gulf states and BP […]

Phil AmmannDecember 19, 2016

Among this current climate of hyper-partisanship, it is increasingly rare to find members of one party saying kind words about someone on the other. But that was the case this week when Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson gave a “shoutout” to Republican state Sen. Jack Latvala for his efforts in making sure 2010 BP oil […]

Associated PressJuly 1, 2016

The attorney who oversaw the distribution of donations after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Boston Marathon bombing and the BP oil spill compensation fund will now handle the fund for victims of the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said in a news release Friday that Kenneth R. Feinberg will work […]

Associated PressApril 4, 2016

A federal judge in New Orleans granted final approval Monday to an estimated $20 billion settlement over the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, resolving years of litigation over the worst offshore spill in the nation’s history. The settlement, first announced in July, includes $5.5 billion in civil Clean Water Act penalties […]

Shannon NickinsonJuly 21, 2015

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 […]

Phil AmmannJuly 19, 2015

Five years after the Obama administration promised to move swiftly to permanently plug unused oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico, even more shafts are lingering for longer periods with only temporary sealing, an investigation by The Associated Press shows. It is not clear how many incompletely sealed wells may have leaked — […]

Melissa RossApril 16, 2015

Jacksonville is the only Florida city selected by ocean scientists up and down the Eastern Seaboard to raise the alarm about seismic testing. “We’ve tried to pick one coastal city in each state since there is enormous concern about this in coastal communities,” said Michael Jasny, director of Natural Resource Defense Council’s Marine Mammal Protection […]

Shannon NickinsonSeptember 15, 2014

It shouldn’t take an act of God for Pensacola to make progress, but sometimes it feels like it does. Three of the largest projects successfully undertaken in this community in the last 15 years — moving the Main Street sewer plant, building the Community Maritime Park and launching Rebuild Northwest Florida — came in whole […]

Tag: BP Oil Spill

House votes to steer most BP oil spill settlement money to the Panhandle

Bill Nelson gives shoutout to Jack Latvala for stance on BP oil spill money

Compensation expert to oversee Orlando donation funds

Federal judge OKs $20 billion settlement from 2010 BP oil spill

Shannon Nickinson: Find that silver lining in BP settlement

Share of aging temporarily sealed wells grows

Enviro groups blast proposed seismic testing off Atlantic coast

Shannon Nickinson: Ivan was an ill wind that blew some good for Pensacola