The Florida Department of Environmental Protection will host a community meeting next week to discuss the extent of the Raytheon Co. plume of industrial waste in groundwater under the Azalea neighborhood of St. Petersburg. ...more

January 8, 2009

Got a shiny new television set or computer for Christmas? Don't forget to recycle your old electronics, state environmental officials say. ...more

January 8, 2009

Bring in the reinforcements. That was the directive from a unanimous county commission Tuesday to County Administrator David Hamilton, who had recommended hiring a Tallahassee attorney to steer the Hernando Beach channel dredge project toward a start date. ...more

January 7, 2009

Russell: 'Bring in the top guns.' ...more

January 6, 2009

Progress Energy Florida said this morning it has signed a contract to purchase and build two new nuclear reactors on a 5,100-acre site in Levy County. ...more

January 5, 2009

Geographically, Egmont Key is hardly significant; a speck of an island dwarfed by nearby Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

January 5, 2009

Geographically, Egmont Key is hardly significant; a speck of an island dwarfed by nearby Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

January 4, 2009

To get the big dig going, the county has to bring in the big legal gun. ...more

January 4, 2009

Both the "Landfill A Good Deal for Pasco" (Dec. 26) and the Tom Jackson "Really Green" (Dec. 28) opinions really miss the mark on the dump that is proposed to be built near the Green Swamp, source of the Floridan Aquifer. ...more

January 3, 2009

Got a shiny new television set or computer for Christmas? Don't forget to recycle your old electronics, state environmental officials say. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection wants Pasco County residents to keep discarded electronics out of landfills to protect the state's natural resources. ...more

December 31, 2008