Tampa Electric announced this morning plans to buy electricity from a solar power plant that will be built on a 200 to 400 acre site in Polk County. ...more

March 9, 2009

Regarding "State Agency Slaps Public During Landfill Debacle" (Our Opinion, Dec. 19): ...more

December 26, 2008

Tampa Electric said Thursday that it has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent, a milestone that took 10 years and $1.2 billion to achieve. ...more

January 25, 2008

It's an issue that has dogged Gov. Charlie Crist since last summer. Since mandating the increased use of renewable energy, Crist has been pressured by Florida's business leaders who say Florida lacks the renewable resources, including wind and solar, to meet the governor's goal. ...more

December 13, 2007

Support Proposed Landfill It has come to my attention that Pasco County is considering two different means of managing the county's increasing quantities of municipal solid waste (MSW). One is to expand the waste-to-energy facility (WTE). The other is to construct a materials recovery facility (MRF) and a bioreactor landfill for the residues. ...more

December 3, 2007

Trying to counter claims about the cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, an environmental group presented a study Wednesday hoping to show that it could be more expensive if Florida doesn't try to stop global warming. ...more

November 29, 2007

Often, regulation can have unintended consequences, and we can already see evidence of a negative outcome from Florida's new climate change policies. Tampa Electric Co.'s recent decision to scrap a proposed coal gasification power plant in response to Florida's new greenhouse gas policies actually represents a significant step backward in the fight to reduce global greenhouse gases. ...more

October 22, 2007