With residents already struggling to make ends meet during the recession, the last thing they need now are higher premiums on Citizens Property Insurance homeowner insurance policies, a state lawmaker believes. So state Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, announced this week he will introduce legislation in March to extend the rate freeze on Citizens rates for another year. Citizens is the state-sanctioned property insurer of last resort. ...more

January 17, 2009

(AP) Central Florida's largest power provider, Progress Energy, won approval Tuesday from a state regulatory agency to build two new nuclear power plants. ...more

July 16, 2008

About 3,500 Hernando County residents will be getting letters in the next week from Progress Energy about the company's preferred routes for new power lines. ...more

July 16, 2008

The 2008 presidential campaign has brought to the mainstream a phrase that environmentalists have invoked for years: "green-collar jobs." ...more

June 27, 2008

Global warming and rocketing oil prices are making nuclear power fashionable, drawing a once-demonized industry out of the shadows of the Chernobyl disaster as a potential shining knight of clean energy. ...more

January 13, 2008