Meeting with mayors from across the country, Fort Myers Mayor Randy Henderson is among those who want the president to appoint stronger leadership in the oil spill clean-up.  WGCU’s Luis Hernandez reports.

The BP oil spill in the gulf has led lots of folks to call for boycotting the energy giant. It might be easy to avoid filling up at a BP station, but BP has a long reach.  It’s held in many mutual funds – and retirement funds, including the Florida Retirement System Pension Fund. Valerie Alker has more.

Thousands of people are expected to attend vigils across the country tonight, marking the 50th day of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and calling for increased efforts to stop it and clean it up.  WGCU’s John Davis has more.

Southwest Florida has been spared impacts from the massive Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – at least so far.  But area agencies and residents are not being complacent.  They’re putting together plans for protecting estuaries, beaches and sensitive mangroves – just in case winds and ocean currents bring the oil to this way.  WGCU’s Valerie Alker has more.

Florida U.S. Senator George Lemieux wants to start an immediate claims process to reimbursed people and businesses for damages related to the Gulf oil spill.  WGCU’s John Davis has more.

Some resort owners on Sanibel and Captiva Islands are worried that news on the oil spill in the Gulf is going to hurt business this summer.  As WGCU’s Luis Hernandez reports they’re already getting cancellations.

Now that oil from the spill is in the Loop Current it could end up in Cuban waters within days. There, it would affect healthy corals and critical habitat for endangered species such as manatees and sea turtles. So the Washington, D.C. based Ocean Foundation is helping its Cuban colleagues prepare.  WGCU’s Amy Tardif spoke with the Director of the Ocean Foundation’s Cuba Marine Research & Conservation Program, Dr. David Guggenheim, about this.   

A Sarasota-based company is offering its oil-eating microbes to help clean up oil spilled in the Gulf.  WGCU’s Luis Hernandez reports.

The oil disaster off the coast of Louisiana has many Floridians wondering if any oil will reach our shores.  It’s also given those opposed to drilling more fodder.  WGCU’s Luis Hernandez reports on some reactions from politicians and conservation groups from around the state.

Oceanographers, ecologists and biologists are weighing in on the potential effects the oil spill in the Gulf could have on Florida’s coastline and the Everglades ecosystem.  WGCU’s John Davis reports.