Environmentally Sensitive News Today

A familiar name has surfaced in Dunnellon. The city wonders what the Orlando businessman will do with environmentally sensitive land he just bought.

Orange County’s Green PLACE Program announces its biggest land purchase since the board of county commissioners expanded it in 2021.

Congressman Bobby Scott has secured over $1.3 million in funding for the Resilient Hampton initiative.

The purchase of the 25 acres is the first through the county's Environmentally Sensitive Lands program in a decade, the county stated.

Familiar foes find themselves in a fracas again over a proposed mega-development in rural east Orange as residents hope to block a plan for 1,800 homes on ranchlands in the environmentally sensitive Econ River Basin. Developer Sean Froelich’s proposed project also has a familiar sounding name, Sustanee, a spelling tweak of “Sustany,” the tag by which an earlier iteration of the plan was known ...

Hours before a planned vote on the Miami Wilds water park, federal wildlife regulators released a letter declaring the development site “environmentally sensitive” and likely “essential” for protecting an endangered bat.

The large aircraft became stuck in Kaneohe Bay on the Hawaiian island of Oahu after it overshot a runway at Marine Corps Base Hawaii and landed in the water.

The plane overshot a runway on Nov. 20 and landed in the environmentally sensitive bay. No injuries were reported.

The P-8A crashed into an environmentally sensitive bay when it overshot the runway at Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Nov. 20.

U.S. Navy officials said Monday they would discuss how they plan to remove a large aircraft from an environmentally sensitive Hawaii bay after it overshot a runway last week. The Navy placed two temporary floating barriers around the P-8A aircraft at its resting spot in the shallow waters of Kaneohe Bay to prevent any potential fuel spill or other contaminants from polluting the ocean. Navy officials scheduled a news conference for Monday to provide an update.