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		<title>Rick Scott shifts storm focus to Panhandle</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[News Service Of Florida]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2017 08:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After spending much of the past month focused on Hurricane Irma, Gov. Rick Scott will shift Thursday to the one region of Florida that was largely unscathed from that mammoth storm: The Panhandle. Scott will appear Thursday at emergency-management facilities in Escambia and Bay counties, as a newly formed tropical depression could turn into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and threaten Northwest Florida. The storm, still dubbed Wednesday as Tropical Depression 16, could hit the Gulf Coast as&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hurricane Harvey expected to raise gas prices in Florida</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2017 20:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As Hurricane Harvey bears down on the Texas coast, gasoline prices in Florida are expected to jump in the next week. Oil refineries sit in the projected path of the storm, and much of the gas that Florida receives is shipped across the Gulf of Mexico from those refineries. W.D. Williams, a spokesman for AAA Auto Club, said prices could jump between 10 and 30 cents over the next week, depending on how bad the storm is. “When the refineries&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Beachgoers form human chain to rescue family in water</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Strangers on a Florida beach formed an 80-person human chain to rescue nine members of a family who had been caught in a riptide and pulled too far from shore. Roberta Ursrey and her family were enjoying the day at M.B. Miller County Pier on the Gulf of Mexico when she noticed her sons were missing, the Panama City News Herald reported. She went looking for them and soon heard them screaming from the water that they were trapped by the&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rick Scott approves plan to hand out BP oil spill money</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 22:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Northwest Florida counties are going to finally get a share of money given to the state for damages related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Gov. Rick Scott on Friday signed a bill (HB 7007) that guarantees the distribution of $300 million to eight counties hardest hit by the spill. In 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, leased by energy giant BP, killed 11 workers and caused a blow-out that began&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dr. Beach names Florida&#8217;s Siesta Beach best beach in U.S.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamara Lush]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2017 14:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The sand on Siesta Beach on Florida&#8217;s Gulf Coast is as fine as powdered sugar, a pure, sparkling white and soft as a kitten&#8217;s fur &#8211; all because it&#8217;s comprised of 99 percent pure crushed quartz. For that reason, and many others, it was selected this year as the best beach in America by a professor who&#8217;s made a career ranking and studying beaches around the United States. &#8220;The sand is outstanding,&#8221; said Stephen Leatherman, aka Dr. Beach, a professor&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>After delay Florida will finally hand out oil spill money</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Fineout]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2017 07:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After keeping the money locked up for nearly a year, Florida legislators have finally agreed on a plan to hand out millions of dollars given the state for damages related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Florida Senate on Monday voted unanimously for a bill that would guarantee that $300 million be distributed to eight Panhandle counties hardest hit by the spill. The bill heads back to the Florida House, which is expected&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Joe Henderson: Concern for the environment really depends on which party is in charge</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Henderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[green space]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The words “green space” can have a different meaning depending on the person involved. Democrats generally believe green space to mean protected grasslands, pristine parks, waterways, and regulations to keep companies from belching pollutants into the atmosphere. Republicans generally appear to believe green space is a metaphor for money that can be made by paving over any empty spot of land they see. I know that’s a generalization. There are plenty of conservatives who will argue strongly for environmental protection.&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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