Christian Wagley, Coastal Organizer for Healthy Gulf, spoke to the Santa Rosa Island Authority at their July 8 meeting regarding the oil and gas drilling moratorium.

The SRIA Board was among a long list of Pensacola Beach organizations to take a stand to oppose oil and gas drilling off the coast of Florida.

Wagley’s message, “Thank you all for being such strong allies for keeping Florida’s beaches and the eastern Gulf free of oil and gas drilling. We are at a critical time in this continuing saga as the U.S. Senate could include an extension of the existing drilling moratorium (which expires in 2022) as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) being considered by the Senate next week.”

The county's COVID-19 webpage at myescambia.com/COVID19 has included Florida Department of Health data for total cases in Escambia County, cumulative hospitalizations, deaths, testing data and demographics such as age, gender, race, ethnicity. The enhanced dashboard now also include cases per day showing previous days, the positivity rate per week, testing per week, current COVID-19 hospitalizations provided by the local hospitals and available hospital and ICU beds per the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). 

Click here for dashboard: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/18ff0ce137774f97bfa24132c2a69085/

The sun is shining. The saltwater beckons. Be safe. Adhere to the CDC guidelines. Physical distance your family from others. Be courteous. Be on the beach.