10 Largest Public Companies In The Bay Area By Market Capitalization ...more

March 9, 2009

Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio has taken some hits from some city council members from not being sufficiently green, particularly during the city's recent discussion of renewing its franchise agreement with TECO. ...more

February 7, 2009

Everybody, it seems, is on board with the concept of encouraging green energy and green jobs. We're riding the Barack Obama bandwagon, which promises to trundle - under some combination of solar, wind and biofuel - down the road to zero emissions, energy independence and a multi-megaton employment explosion. ...more

December 28, 2008

Several of the city's old landfills are buried beneath public schools. Pizzo Elementary, Roland Park Middle School, Lockhart Elementary and Young Middle Magnet School were built on or near land once used to bury Tampa's garbage. ...more

December 21, 2008

Standing atop the 400-acre 1-E landfill, you get a panoramic view of the Meadowlands sports complex to the north and the New York City skyline to the east. You're also standing on a critical part of New Jersey's, and the nation's, energy future. ...more

October 26, 2008

Highlands County is about to begin making asphalt and history. The first government owned and operated asphalt plant in Florida should start production next week at the Highlands County Landfill, fueled mainly by methane gas that is now burned off. ...more

October 10, 2008

Methane gas from the county's northwest landfill will soon be converted to electricity ...more

September 4, 2008

homes, said Joe Collum, Timberline's site manager for the project. The system could produce twice that in about 15 years, when a planned third garbage cell is expected to reach capacity, Collum said. Timberline will install a second generator in a few years to handle the increasing amount of gas. ...more

September 4, 2008

I was both puzzled and horrified when I listened to Nobel laureate Al Gore blatantly lie about global warming. ...more

July 30, 2008

SEBRING — The first asphalt plant owned and operated by a local government in Florida's history is under construction at the Highlands County Waste Management's 1,000-acre landfill. Ken Wheeler, director of the county's solid waste management department, said the plant should go into production by late June or early July. Asphalt paving costs are expected to be reduced between 10 to 20 percent at the plant, which will also add several forms of recycling to Highlands County's waste disposal system. First, methane gas, produced by garbage decomposing underground at the landfill, will no longer be burned off by flares. Instead, the gas will be used as the fuel to run the asphalt plant. ...more

June 10, 2008