Florida Division of Emergency Management officials are again urging beachgoers along the entire Atlantic coast from Nassau County south to Miami-Dade County to use extreme caution Wednesday through Friday as a high risk of dangerous rip currents is expected due to ocean swells caused by Hurricane Earl.
Beachgoers along the entire Atlantic coast from Nassau County south to Miami-Dade County are being urged to use extreme caution this week, as a high risk of dangerous rip currents is expected through Friday, due to ocean swells caused by distant tropical systems.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has launched a new awareness campaign, Pitch In-Pump Out, to inform marinas and boaters about keeping Florida’s waterways clean through proper disposal of boater sewage.
National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen today announced the deployment of 19 additional Economic Assessment and Evaluation Teams to communities affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Federal officials on Tuesday reopened federal waters off the Florida Panhandle to commercial and recreational fishing, saying that National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data have shown no oil in the area.
The vast majority of the oil from the BP oil spill has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, recovered from the wellhead or dispersed – much of which is in the process of being degraded, according to a federal science report released today.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) today announced that its ‘Easy As One’ project was chosen to be in the running for $25,000 in grant money during August’s voting cycle of Pepsi’s Refresh Everything Project.
The cap on the leaking well will remain closed, even as many vessels and rigs will be preparing to move out of the path of Tropical Storm Bonnie, National Incident Commander, Thad Allen said on Thursday.
National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen today authorized BP to continue the well integrity test for another 24 hours. Contingency plans are also been put in place to be implemented in the event of a tropical storm or hurricane.
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is helping with the unprecedented effort to save wildlife from the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The first group of hatchlings from endangered sea turtle eggs brought from beaches along the northern U.S. Gulf Coast was released into the Atlantic Ocean off Kennedy’s central Florida coast on July 11.
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