A large chemical plume that sits beneath the Young-Rainey Star Center building on Belcher Road has spread to nearby properties, including areas around a daycare center. ...more

March 25, 2009

Rarely have lawmakers confronted an agenda as ambitious as the one Congress will face upon convening this week, with an incoming president pushing to stabilize an economy on the brink of long-term recession, to create universal health coverage and to overhaul federal energy policies. ...more

January 5, 2009

What's rising faster than gas prices this summer? Americans' worries about them. ...more

July 24, 2008

TAMPA - Once unthinkable in Florida, the possibility of drilling for oil off the coast got much more thinkable this week after Gov. Charlie Crist, presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain and President Bush called for an end to a federal moratorium. ...more

June 19, 2008

If it's a shock to pay $60, or even $100, to fill up your gas tank, you better get used to it. ...more

June 12, 2008

California sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday for denying the state's first-in-the-nation greenhouse gas limits on cars, trucks and sport utility vehicles, challenging the Bush administration's conclusion that states have no business setting emission standards. ...more

January 3, 2008

SEBRING — Yeah, yeah, yeah. Spring forward, fall back. We all get an extra hour of sleep. But some folks, like Richard Duvigneaud, would be more pleased if the federal government would just quit fooling around with the time. "Since you asked, I detest Daylight-Savings Time," said Duvigneaud, of Sebring. "It adds more time to peoples' evenings in summer, where it should stay. "The extension to daylight-savings time is ridiculous," he said. Starting in 2007, the federal Energy Policy Act extended DST a month, beginning on the second Sunday in March and ending on the first Sunday in November, instead of the last Sunday in October. ...more

November 3, 2007