Today, Tampa City Council members will hold the final vote on the city's franchise agreement with Tampa Electric Co. In the last few months members have gone back and forth about approving it, with at least three hoping to use the negotiations to push the utility toward cleaner environmental policies. ...more

December 4, 2008

Draper Laboratory made it official today. The Massachusetts-based research corporation announced that it will open an estimated $20 million research center at the University of South Florida in Tampa and a microchip manufacturing facility in St. Petersburg. ...more

July 28, 2008

The dark clouds and drizzle of rain didn't hinder the Coleman seventh-graders' Stop the Engines! campaign. Knocking on car windows and asking parents to cease idling, they pleaded their case against carbon dioxide emissions. ...more

February 20, 2008

Major electric companies suddenly are refusing to bet their profits on coal. Trouble is, they aren't sure what option is better. ...more

November 25, 2007