The federal government is opening its wallet, and Tampa is ready to spend. ...more

June 20, 2009

Hernando County has grown during the past 10 years, but not enough to earn any federal grant money for energy efficiency - at least not directly. ...more

March 27, 2009

Hernando County has grown during the past 10 years, but not enough to earn any federal grant money. ...more

March 26, 2009

Tampa Electric Co. performed an energy audit last week at Hillsborough County's jails, which in recent months have sought ways to save money on energy bills. The audit yielded positive results, although some ideas generated by the audit had been in the works, Col. Jim Previtera said. ...more

December 23, 2008

OPEC on Wednesday agreed to slash 2.2 million barrels from its daily production - its single largest cut ever - while bloc outsiders Russia and Azerbaijan announced their own cutbacks of hundreds of thousands of barrels from the market. ...more

December 18, 2008

Faced with the prospect of rising rates, with electric bills at his jails already in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, Col. Jim Previtera got a bright idea - cut down on energy use by any safe means necessary. ...more

December 16, 2008

Faced with the prospect of rising rates, with electric bills at his jails already in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, Col. Jim Previtera got a bright idea – cut down on energy use by any safe means necessary. ...more

December 15, 2008

Col. Jim Previtera, the new head of Hillsborough County's jails, has ordered his staff to immediately conserve energy on the job. ...more

October 21, 2008

TAMPA - Col. Jim Previtera, the new head of Hillsborough County's jails, ordered his staffers Wednesday to immediately conserve energy on the job. ...more

October 17, 2008

The world pumped up its pollution of the chief man-made global warming gas last year, setting a course that could push beyond leading scientists' projected worst-case scenario, international researchers said Thursday. ...more

September 26, 2008