The leak has been repaired, the lines reburied and the water and traffic are flowing again. ...more

December 31, 2008

The winding detour, sandy-covered streets, rattling machinery and stifling stench of flowing, raw sewage should now be a thankfully-buried part of Sun City Center's past. ...more

December 10, 2008

The smelly air around a Tampa chemical plant is about to get a scrubbing. ...more

November 20, 2008

After denying there was a problem, General Chemical has agreed to install scrubbers in the stack of its Palmetto Beach plant near the Port of Tampa. ...more

November 19, 2008

It's environment for the sake of development. Entrepreneur Bill Casey is creating a 161-acre wetland mitigation bank in which developers can buy credits in repentance for destroying swampland elsewhere. ...more

November 7, 2008

It's official: A chemical plant at the edge of a Tampa neighborhood stinks. ...more

October 26, 2008

The state Department of Environmental Protection wants to make it easier for people to dispose of wood and food waste on their properties and is considering lifting some regulations. ...more

October 5, 2008

A Rocky Creek homeowner who cut down dozens of mangroves and built an illegal boat dock has to pay a $16,850 fine but will continue to have boat access to Tampa Bay. ...more

October 4, 2008

Hillsborough County adopted new noise rules Thursday designed to increase restrictions on amplified music played after 11 p.m. and make it easier to take annoying noise-makers to court and fine them. ...more

September 19, 2008

Some Temple Terrace residents and neighbors of the Ford Amphitheatre are worried that proposed changes to the county's noise ordinance will mean the return of the excessively loud concerts that once disrupted their neighborhoods. ...more

September 18, 2008