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UPDATED: Friday, June 30, 2017 at 10:36 AM CORRECTION: WGCU originally wrote, "Acquaviva did not return WGCU’s calls for comment," but it should read…

Long-time listeners and readers of News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams are well aware of her passion for Southwest Florida’s wild spaces. In…

Gov. Rick Scott and the Cabinet on Wednesday unanimously named Ryan Matthews as the interim secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental...

The Florida Sierra Club’s phosphate committee has formally objected to allowing a new Mosaic Company mine in Desoto County. Placida attorney Percy Angelo…

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection hosted a brownfields symposium this week in Sarasota.Brownfields are sites considered to be…

Two state agencies -- one independent, the other under the governor -- take very different approaches to climate change, demonstrating how politics can...

State officials will begin testing groundwater Tuesday at the site where an oil company used an unauthorized fracking-like drilling method.Officials at…

The likelihood of heavy rainfall from Isaac could lead to toxic water overflowing from a reservoir at the now defunct Piney Point fertilizer plant in…