China took a big leap into the U.S. renewable energy market Thursday, putting up $1.5 billion for a 36,000-acre wind farm in Texas with the power to light 180,000 homes. ...more

October 30, 2009

A Sarasota teenager will use vegetable oil from restaurants to power his station wagon during his cross-country trip. ...more

February 23, 2009

Throughout 2008, Larry Summers, the Harvard economist, built the case for a big but surgical stimulus package. Summers warned that a "poorly provided fiscal stimulus can have worse side effects than the disease that is to be cured." So his proposal had three clear guidelines. ...more

February 1, 2009

The state has agreed to pay the nation's biggest producer of sugar cane $1.34 billion, instead of the $1.75 billion originally proposed, under a revised deal to buy up vast tracts of farmland to restore the Everglades, the company said in statements Tuesday. ...more

November 12, 2008

A major player in America's effort to use more alternative energy has targeted Tampa for its next big project. ...more

October 27, 2008

A major player in America's effort to use more alternative energy has targeted Tampa for its next big project. GreenHunter Energy Inc. of Houston said it may build a $70 million facility that would store and produce biofuels at the Port of Tampa. The company recently paid $1 million for an option to lease the 22-acre site near U.S. 41 to build the facility. ...more

October 24, 2008

Everybody pretty much knows that alternative energy is all the rage nowadays. And you can get up to speed at a free, show-and-tell that will introduce machines and devices that save energy this weekend at Little Harbor, 611 Destiny Drive. ...more

October 17, 2008

Sandra Kellmeier of Tarpon Springs challenges assertions in a political ad placed in The Suncoast News by the Tarpon Springs Republican Club. ...more

October 11, 2008

It seems like now would be a very good time to eliminate the federal Department of Energy and Department of Education. ...more

September 1, 2008

It seems like now would be a very good time to eliminate the federal Department of Energy and Department of Education. ...more

August 30, 2008