In the waning days of his administration, President George W. Bush is trying to slip through a number of new rules that would undermine environmental and consumer protections. ...more

November 10, 2008

Regional water managers are spending a half million dollars researching whether Hillsborough County should inject millions of gallons of treated wastewater into the vast underground lake known as the Floridan Aquifer. ...more

September 23, 2008

A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes, researchers say. ...more

August 19, 2008

Tampa Bay Water officials say they want to protect water quality in the Alafia River by changing the river's classification so it must meet drinking water standards. ...more

December 14, 2007

A move to provide more protections for the Alafia River was delayed for 60 days to give several concerned groups more time to study technical and economic data collected by the area's regional water supplier, Tampa Bay Water. ...more

October 16, 2007

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it would look into claims from an advocacy group that certain lipsticks contain potentially dangerous levels of lead. ...more

October 13, 2007