Environmental News

An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.

BP PLC told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that it spent a total of $93 million on advertising from April to the end of July. The company says the money was intended to keep Gulf Coast residents informed on ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted this morning to ban the practice of using dogs to chase foxes and coyotes in large fenced areas.

Dozens of endangered sea turtles, plucked from the oil-fouled waters of the Deepwater Horizon disaster this summer, got a second chance Tuesday in Southwest Florida.

The way the city of Naples recycles could be changing _ from start to finish. At the curb, green-minded Neapolitans would be able to wheel out a 65-gallon cart rather than carry out 18-gallon recycling bins.

The administrator of the new claims process for victims of the Gulf oil spill says most of the individual claims reviewed in the first week lacked the minimal documentation to be paid.

Hunters use fox pens to train their hunting dogs and to stage competitions in which dogs are judged on how well they pursue their prey. It’s all about the chase, not the kill, they say. Animal activists, on the other ...

An agreement struck between Florida Realtors, the state Realtor association, and Kenneth Feinberg, the claims administrator for the BP Oil Spill Fund, makes $16 million available to real estate professionals in Florida who lost business because of BP’s blown-out well, ...

The release of new FEMA flood maps represents the first change in the flood plain designations in the county in more than a decade. The changes, unveiled at a recent series of meetings held by county government staff, will force ...

Authorities are reburying about 120 sea turtle eggs after they were found in a backpack in South Florida.

The Panhandle's largest private landowner on Thursday sued a Houston-based company responsible for the drilling fluids including mud that should have controlled the pressure in the well and prevented the blowout of BP's failed Gulf of Mexico oil well.

Federal investigators became visibly annoyed Thursday as BP executives were unwilling or unable to provide a clear picture of the company's heirarchy or say who was in charge of the rig leased by the oil giant the day it blew ...

Wildlife officials say sea turtle eggs can remain in nests on Florida and Alabama beaches, rather than being moved to east Florida so hatchlings could be released into the Atlantic Ocean.

The discovery of two dead pets in two weeks has a pair of residents in a North Naples subdivision convinced a coyote is on the prowl.

After bringing order to rampant confusion in BP's command center in the days after the Gulf of Mexico well blowout, a BP vice president said Wednesday he then wasted critical time trying to seal off the well because changes were ...