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

In the 1980s, scientists sounded the alarm: The Amazon was burning and would be gone by the end of the century. ...more

December 14, 2007

TAMPA - Gov. Charlie Crist, in Tampa today for a meeting of the National Governors Association, defended his clean energy policies against naysayers who claim his mandates for renewable energy are unrealistic and will inflate electric bills. ...more

December 13, 2007

"This is the worst environmental disaster in the United States since the Exxon Valdez accident ... and the greatest forest destruction in modern times," said James Cummins, executive director of the nonprofit environmental group Wildlife Mississippi. ...more

November 16, 2007

Satellite imaging has revealed that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita produced the largest single forestry disaster on record in America, an essentially unreported ecological catastrophe that killed or severely damaged some 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana. ...more

November 16, 2007

America's obesity epidemic and global warming might not seem to have much in common, but public health experts suggest people can attack them both by cutting calories and carbon dioxide at the same time. ...more

November 12, 2007

opportunities with potentially very profitable yields. ...more

November 5, 2007

In one week, Southern California's wildfires spewed as much carbon dioxide - the primary global warming gas - as the state's power plants and vehicles do in a week, scientists say. ...more

November 1, 2007

Florida, a state that has fought hard to preserve the ban on oil production off its shores, has effectively closed the door on another traditional source of energy. ...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