A federal appeals court ruled Friday in favor of environmentalists seeking protection for the endangered North Atlantic right whale, giving those activists a victory in a long-running fight to prevent collisions of the giant mammals with ships. ...more

July 19, 2008

Local environmentalists admit they were worried but say they are largely satisfied with Hillsborough County's yearlong effort to revise its wetlands rules. ...more

July 19, 2008

Jim Withers sat in the back room of his small barbershop smoking a cigarette and studying his computer screen. ...more

July 13, 2008

Randy Goggin of New Port Richey says John McCain's position on energy only marginally better than Barack Obama's. ...more

July 12, 2008

It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be. ...more

July 11, 2008

In the late 1980s Pasco County was contemplating what to do with its swelling stream of solid waste. It could create a new landfill, what people once called a garbage dump. There was only one small problem. Actually it was a huge problem. No one wanted the landfill created anywhere near them. That definitely was a problem, because there was hardly any place a landfill might have been created that wasn't near someone. ...more

July 2, 2008

On Monday, the Supreme Court refused to take up the appeal lodged by environmental groups that focused on a two-mile stretch of border fence in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area near Naco, Ariz. The fence, which has been built since the petition was filed, is a vital part of the Bush administration's drive to secure the border between the United States and Mexico. The Supreme Court's decision is a welcome and needed victory in the war against illegal immigration and efforts to preserve the unique character that is America. ...more

June 27, 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

A Beach Over A State Regarding "As Gas Prices Gush, Drilling Debate Flows" (front page, June 14): ...more

June 21, 2008

I guess my admittedly flippant response to the first letter Dallas Dunlop wrote pushed a few of his hot buttons and for that, I suppose, I owe him an apology. It was all meant in good fun and certainly not intended to be insulting. Having said that, I still think he totally missed my point. I never for a moment claimed that we are not in the midst of a national energy crisis; nor did I wish to create the impression that we have nothing to worry about or that we are sitting on gazillions of barrels of oil. ...more

June 18, 2008