Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of coastal restoration from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Alabama will receive $87 million in RESTORE Act funding for coastal projects, including 100 acres of new wetland in upper Mobile Bay and replenishment of Dauphin Island's West End and…
Environmental preservation and remediation projects in Mobile and Baldwin counties have been awarded nearly $26 million from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund, part of a…
Four coastal restoration projects across Mobile and Baldwin counties, including a major upgrade to the Dauphin Island Causeway, will share nearly $26 million in Deepwater Horizon settlement funding.
Sixteen environmental and recreational projects across Mobile and Baldwin counties are set to receive a combined $26.1 million after Gov. Kay Ivey approved the latest round of funding from the…
Gulf Shores has placed 836 acres of wetlands along Oyster Bay under a permanent conservation easement, protecting the land from future development and funding habitat restoration through a federal Deepwater…
Ten years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Alabama has received more than $790 million in BP-funded restoration and expects over $1.4 billion more — but officials and environmentalists say the…
Alabama has settled a federal lawsuit over its use of BP oil spill restoration funds at Gulf State Park, agreeing to spend $65 million over 20 years on public beach…
The Alabama Coastal Cleanup returns Saturday, Sept. 16 for its 30th year, with a new partnership to recycle plastic waste collected from roughly 30 sites across Mobile and Baldwin counties.
Six new coastal restoration projects worth $63 million, funded through fines paid by BP and Transocean, will fund land conservation and habitat work from Dauphin Island and Bayou La Batre…
A new Gulf Coast poll shows strong bipartisan support for spending BP oil spill settlement funds on restoring beaches and coastal ecosystems.