The epic debate over global warming enters a new chapter: The U.S. Senate is considering landmark legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. ...more

June 5, 2008

The climate change bill that senators are to begin debating this week is a hugely important signal of intent on behalf of U.S. legislators. Yes, negotiations could still alter the legislation. But the bill's core proposition is correct: Unless the United States radically reduces its greenhouse gas emissions, along with other major emitters, the damage to the climate will be irreversible. ...more

June 2, 2008

Judging from the solid waste generated by some first-rate public relations flackery, you would think the good citizens of Central Florida arise every morning and gaze longingly out their windows in the unrequited hope that someday soon a CSX choo-choo will come blowing by to turn their pastureland into a teaming hub of locomotion. ...more

May 3, 2008

Florida is fighting for states' rights - as well as clean air - by joining the lawsuit filed by California against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. ...more

February 23, 2008

General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner urged a group of auto dealers Saturday to lobby against individual states trying to set their own limits on greenhouse gas emissions. ...more

February 10, 2008

Saint Leo University is one of more than 1,750 institutions examining global warming and possible solutions in what's being billed as the largest teach-in in U.S. history today. ...more

January 31, 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

If a Bush administration ruling stands, states are going to need the federal Big Brother's permission to deal with pollution or other problems that plague them. ...more

January 8, 2008

The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday slapped down California's bid for first-in-the-nation greenhouse gas limits on cars, trucks and SUVs, refusing the state a waiver that would have allowed those restrictions to take effect. ...more

December 20, 2007

Nuclear power, an industry once headed toward certain extinction, is back in play. ...more

December 17, 2007