State environmental officials have approved a report from Raytheon that starts the clock ticking on cleanup of a groundwater pollution plume that has been spreading for decades through a St. Petersburg neighborhood. ...more

January 31, 2009

State environmental officials have approved a report from Raytheon that starts the clock ticking on cleanup of a groundwater pollution plume that has been spreading for decades through a St. Petersburg neighborhood. ...more

January 30, 2009

Residents who live near the Raytheon defense plant in St. Petersburg squared off Thursday night against state environmental regulators in a contentious meeting over the impact of an underground pollution plume under their homes, parks and playgrounds. ...more

January 15, 2009

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection will host a community meeting next week to discuss the extent of the Raytheon Co. plume of industrial waste in groundwater under the Azalea neighborhood of St. Petersburg. ...more

January 8, 2009

A woman having trouble selling her home near the Raytheon plant has filed a federal lawsuit claiming groundwater contamination from leaking hazardous waste has polluted her irrigation well and hurt the value of her property. ...more

December 13, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG A St. Petersburg woman who says she has been having trouble selling her home near the Raytheon defense plant has filed a federal lawsuit claiming groundwater contamination from leaking hazardous waste has polluted her irrigation well and hurt the value of her property. Colleen Galligan filed the lawsuit in Tampa on Monday. ...more

December 10, 2008

The state will test air quality inside homes and apartments where groundwater contamination is heaviest from the Raytheon plant site in St. Petersburg, officials said. ...more

July 10, 2008

People living near a Raytheon plant in St. Petersburg could be at an increased risk for cancer if they irrigated fruits and vegetables with water from tainted wells, according to an environmental expert. ...more

May 23, 2008

Three former lead paint manufacturers who lost a landmark lawsuit in Rhode Island would have to pay an estimated $2.4 billion to clean up hundreds of thousands of homes contaminated with lead under a state proposal released Friday. ...more

September 15, 2007