Only one in a hundred offshore drilling leases may produce oil, and there's no guarantee that near-shore drilling will bring big bucks to Florida. ...more

November 3, 2009

For years, Texas has relied on scientists and technology at Texas A&M University to track oil spills, forecast where they are headed and minimize the damage they cause. ...more

October 31, 2009

Aug. 21 was a mess for the oil industry. That was the day an oil platform off the northern coast of Australia began leaking 300 to 400 barrels of oil a day into the Timor Sea. Reports are that the leak continues, fouling thousands of miles of ocean and threatening marine life. ...more

October 30, 2009

Mary and Lee Wilkerson have won preservation awards and accolades from travel Web sites for their painstaking restorations of older beach homes in the Tampa Bay area. ...more

October 22, 2009

TALLAHASSEE (AP) — Texas and Alabama get far less money every year from offshore drilling in their state waters than advocates say Florida can expect, the state's environmental chief told a House panel Wednesday. ...more

October 21, 2009

our oceans. There are currently two bills up for discussion in the Senate that would allow offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, an area teeming with marine wildlife and valuable fisheries. ...more

August 26, 2009

The outrage to offshore drilling stems from the risk of pollution to the pristine beaches of Florida and its ruination of tourism. Senators Nelson, Martinez and ex-Governor Bush must compare it to a Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. ...more

August 22, 2009

WHAT'S NEXT A proposal in the state Legislature to lift the state's offshore drilling ban now goes to the House for a vote. If it's approved there, the Senate and Gov. Charlie Crist would have to approve it before it could become law. ...more

April 22, 2009

The director of Pinellas County's visitors bureau is scheduled to testify before a congressional committee in Washington on Wednesday and deliver the message that drilling along the Gulf Coast could unnecessarily cripple the area's mainstay tourism economy. ...more

February 9, 2009

A powerful grouping of Florida's convention and visitors bureaus has picked up the slogan. ...more

December 18, 2008