TALLAHASSEE — A legal battle is moving forward over a plan to drill for oil and gas in part of rural Northwest Florida. The environmental organization Apalachicola Riverkeeper is challenging a draft ...

After a series of abandoned attempts by others, another company is hoping to strike oil in the fragile Apalachicola River basin — setting off a new round of opposition from environmentalists and other ...

Xochitl Bervera’s commute takes about 15 minutes, and she’ll argue it’s the prettiest drive on earth. Each morning, Bervera boats into the middle of Apalachicola Bay, where she has raised oysters full ...

A coalition of about 70 environmental groups commandeered the front entrance of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Monday to protest the department’s decision to permit an exploratory ...

A bill that blocks a proposed oil well along the Apalachicola River and prohibits oil and gas drilling near sensitive waterways in north, east and south Florida is headed for the House floor. The bill ...

The bill has been introduced by Florida Sens. Ashley Moody and Rick Scott, and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

ATLANTA (AP) — Jason Cox, who grows peanuts and cotton in southwest Georgia, says farming would be economically impossible without water to irrigate his crops. “I'd be out of business,” said Cox, who ...