Renaming it Emerald Coast Utilities Authority rather than Escambia County Utilities Authority made it look as if those of us not living on the coast were being excluded.

All well and good, we’re used to being ignored.

Still, what with the way things’re going, they may have to rename the organization, probably want to keep the ECUA, though, rather than repaint all the trucks and whatnot.

Emergency Coast? It is facing an oill slick problem, not that it affects ECUA
Empty Coast if the oil scares all the tourists away?
Emulsion Coast, oil and water mix?
Encased Coast, sheathed or coated? That could fit.
Encumbered Coast, as in debilitated, hampered or hindered?
Embittered Coast, fits how some feel right now.
Embarassed Coast, naw, too many others embarassed right now for that to stick out.
Emasculated?
Elegiac, sad?
Eggshell could get across the idea of delicate and easily harmed, but it also implies a color of white which . . .
Effluent or emission, dealing with discharge and bringing to mind the idea of sewage.
Educational Coast? You can see how it would fit
Ebony? naw, too red, not all that dark
Eat Crow Utilities Authority?
Economically Crippled Utilities Authority? just a thought
Eviscerated Coast, gutted?

Naw, it’ll probably all be over soon and we can go back to wondering why the coast should be emerald rather than some form of white which starts with an E or why the authority couldn’t be something for the whole county.