Show leadership I was very excited to read that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson released her agency's long-awaited Endangerment Finding, officially declaring global warming pollution a threat to pubic health. It places the EPA in a position to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and gives President Obama the ammunition he needs to promise real emissions reductions while he is at the U.N. climate negotiations in Copenhagen. ...more

December 13, 2009

Conservatives champion the essential characteristics of America: liberty, enterprise and ingenuity. As world leaders consider how to transform the way we make and use energy in the face of a changing climate, it's time for an energy policy true to that spirit - and it shouldn't be anathema to the American right. ...more

December 12, 2009

A rainy-season ban of nitrogen-based fertilizers would curtail a major water polluter and spare Hillsborough County millions of dollars in cleanup costs. ...more

December 8, 2009

The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouse gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment. ...more

December 7, 2009

The city's former landfill may someday be transformed into a sports complex, with baseball, football and soccer fields and other athletic amenities. The garbage dump at Disston Avenue and Meres Boulevard was active until 1983, when it was closed and capped. It is now used as the city's yard waste facility. ...more

December 5, 2009

State Agriculture Secretary Charles Bronson and other opponents of a federal plan to decrease the pollution of Florida's rivers, lakes and bays say the restrictions would generate billions of dollars of costs for businesses and local governments. ...more

December 3, 2009

The fleet of new cars and trucks sold to U.S. consumers averaged 21 miles per gallon in the 2008 model year, a modest increase over the previous year, the Environmental Protection Agency reported Friday. ...more

November 21, 2009

The federal government will attempt to set Florida's water pollution standards - the first venture for any state - under an agreement approved Monday. ...more

November 17, 2009

The county has expanded its waste-to-energy plant on Falkenburg Road by 50 percent. ...more

November 11, 2009

The city's carbon footprint could soon be getting bigger. Tampa officials want to increase the amount of methanol they're allowed to use at the Howard F. Curren Wastewater Treatment Plant, a move environmental regulators say will double the level of hazardous air emissions coming from the facility. ...more

November 7, 2009