While environmentalists challenge oil drilling permits along Apalachicola River, DeSantis' DEP extends drilling rights for ...

The Apalachicola Bay used to supply 90% of Florida's oysters, but after a drought and a major oil spill, it collapsed in 2012. An administrative law judge is considering allowing a permit to drill ...

She pointed out that about 90% of Gulf of Mexico species spend some part of their lifecycle in Apalachicola Bay. "And the river itself is connected through multiple creeks, backwaters and wetland ...

UNESCO declared the Apalachicola River, Bay and watershed to be one of the least polluted, most undeveloped, resource-rich systems left in the United States. The watershed feeds the Apalachicola ...

both tributaries to the Apalachicola River. Runoff would be controlled by a perimeter berm, a conventional treatment pond and a second pond equipped with a liner. The captured water also would be ...

The sun sets over Alum Bluff on the Apalachicola River near Bristol, Fla. on Nov. 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Kate Payne) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Environmentalists are heading to court to try to stop a plan ...

Environmentalists are heading to court to try to stop a plan to drill for oil in the watershed of a vulnerable north Florida river. The challenge brought by the conservation group Apalachicola ...