Scott PowersFebruary 19, 2022
5min0
The court is giving lawyers until March 21 to propose a briefing process.
Tag: Department of Interior
Scott PowersFebruary 19, 2022
Jacob OglesAugust 11, 2021
12min1212
Bipartisan support exists for improving South Florida water quality.
Associated PressDecember 18, 2020
8min349
Pair tasked to tackle the 'undeniable, accelerating, punishing reality of climate change.'
Guest AuthorJuly 1, 2020
7min676
We are not in the minority on this issue among our constituents either
Jacob OglesDecember 15, 2018
4min680
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will soon leave his Cabinet position, President Donald Trump announced on Saturday. It’s unclear what impact this could have on a deal cut between Zinke and Gov. Rick Scott to leave the state “off the table” regarding an expansion of offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. But Zinke’s departure will […]
Scott PowersMarch 9, 2018
3min463
Saying he never got a response in the almost two months since he last asked, Florida’s U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson again wrote to U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Friday requesting clarification on what the administration wants to do off Florida’s coast. Nelson’s latest missive comes as the Department plans to close its public comment […]
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 11, 2018
2min233
At Thursday’s White House briefing, spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders asserted that abandoned plans for drilling for oil off Florida’s coast were not a political favor to Gov. Rick Scott. “I am not aware of any political favor that would have been part of,” Huckabee Sanders said. Huckabee Sanders said that the “public comment” process was one in […]
Associated PressApril 20, 2015
15min190
Five years after the nation’s worst offshore oil spill, the industry is working on drilling even farther into the risky depths beneath the Gulf of Mexico to tap massive deposits once thought unreachable. Opening the new frontier, miles below the bottom of the Gulf, requires engineering feats far beyond those used at BP’s much shallower […]