With water supplies rapidly shrinking during a drought of historic proportions, Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a state of emergency Saturday for the northern third of Georgia and asked President Bush to declare it a major disaster area. ...more

October 21, 2007

One of the nation's largest power generators has agreed to end a yearslong federal lawsuit by paying $4.6 billion to reduce pollution that has eaten away at Northeast mountain ranges and national landmarks, The Associated Press has learned. ...more

October 9, 2007

Tampa Electric Co.'s announcement on Thursday that it has pulled the plug on plans to build an innovative 'clean coal' power plant in Polk County follows the cancellation of at least three other coal plant proposals in Florida. ...more

October 5, 2007