Legislation to prohibit oil and gas drilling in the North Florida wilderness along the Apalachicola River cleared a House ...

Do we want to see Apalachicola shrivel like a sponge in the sun as the river water gets used and dirtied upstream?

Sheriff A.J. 'Tony' Smith hosted a two-hour boat ride to explain why North Florida is no place for oil drilling.

The House Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee on Tuesday unanimously approved the House bill, which received support ...

Lawmakers are considering the issue after the Department of Environmental Protection last year approved a draft permit for ...

The House legislation would ban oil and gas drilling within 10 miles of the state's three national estuarine research reserves, including Apalachicola Bay.

The bills would allow developers to buy credits for wetlands mitigation far from areas impacted and long before restoration ...

Almost a year ago, the Department of Environmental Protection intended to issue a permit to Clear Water Land & Minerals to allow exploratory oil drilling ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Amid a battle over a plan to drill for oil and gas near the Apalachicola River, two North Florida lawmakers filed bills on Wednesday that would set new standards for ...

Amid a legal battle about an effort to drill for oil and gas near Northwest Florida’s Apalachicola River, state House and ...

Plans to drill for oil along the Apalachicola River have Franklin County Sheriff A.J. "Tony" Smith sounding the alarm of a potential death blow to a sparsely populated region increasingly ...