Department of Environmental Protection

More water was released over the weekend from the troubled Piney Point phosphate plant into Tampa Bay. But this time, the water is not expected to impact the bay.

Governor Ron DeSantis announced this week nearly $20 million in grant funding for Florida communities to better assess the risks to critical infrastructure posed by flooding from sea level rise, storm surge, and rainfall events.

Earthjustice and Florida Rising filed a complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and his successors will have more power over some high-level state appointments under a bill headed to his desk.

Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed the Department of Environmental Protection Secretary without seeking the usual support from Florida Cabinet members. On Monday, a second Senate committee supported the governor's pick.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday announced the appointment of three agency heads, including a new secretary at the troubled Florida Department of Corrections.

Wildlife authorities are bracing for more manatee deaths this winter, after a record 974 perished this year in Florida waters.

Cutting carbon emissions to zero in the next 30 years would save about 74 million lives this century, a new analysis estimates.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection says local governments need to know their risk for sea-level rise. Some agencies are already making their own projections.

In a relatively rare move, the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection on Thursday announced approval of a plan to hand over federal permitting authority to Florida for projects that affect wetlands.

The state has been looking into assuming control of the federal wetlands permitting program off and on since 1992. Wednesday, the EPA held the first of two public hearings on the state application submitted in August.

Florida has applied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to have control over permitting in the wetlands. Only two other states, New Jersey and Michigan, do their own permitting.