SARASOTA – City commissioners voted unanimously Monday afternoon to accept a $3.2 million settlement from BP for damage caused by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Commissioners met with City Attorney Robert Fournier and attorneys William Robertson and Steven Teppler to review BP’s offer during a private meeting, as allowed under Florida’s open government law. […]
Secrecy shrouds decade-old oil spill in Gulf of Mexico – Tallahassee Democrat
A blanket of fog lifts, exposing a band of rainbow sheen that stretches off the coast of Louisiana. From an airplane, it’s easy to see gas bubbles that mark the spot where an oil platform toppled during a 2004 hurricane, triggering what might be the longest-running commercial oil spill ever to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. […]
Bill Would Keep Reef Sites a Secret – Politics in Polk
In almost every session of the Legislature, there are bills that would remove from public record some portion of Florida’s Government in the Sunshine Law. Some sponsors have said their bills’ provisions are for security and safety. But one bill filed this year has members of the First Amendment Foundation, who thought they had seen […]
