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  1. Tampa lead factory faces $518,000 in more fines for environmental violations
    4 hours ago• Breaking News
    The County Environmental Protection Commission began its probe of Gopher Resource after a Tampa Bay Times investigation. The commission is proposing a $518,000 fine, after confirming many of the Times' findings.
  2. Allergy season started early and will only get worse after weekend respite
    Jan. 20• Health
    Care Plus Pharmacy in Palm Harbor is already seeing high sales of these allergy medications as pollen levels spike earlier than usual.
  3. Rare, pristine coral reef shaped like roses is found off Tahiti coast
    Jan. 20• Environment
    A researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research studies corals in December the waters off the coast of Tahiti. Deep in the South Pacific, the reef is thought to be one of the largest found at such depths and seems untouched by climate change or human activities.
  5. Biden administration announces more than $1 billion for Everglades restoration
    Jan. 19• Environment
    Taking an airboat ride into the headwaters of the Everglades near Lake Wales you won’t even see a house or strip mall as you glide across the river of grass.
  6. Environmental groups wary of Florida Senate’s ‘Heartland’ plan
    Jan. 18• Environment
    The Heartland Headwaters Protection and Sustainability Act was designed to protect the headwaters of a number of rivers in the Green Swamp and Polk County.
  7. Warm weather helped Florida manatees, but more winter deaths feared
    Jan. 13• Environment
    A record 1,101 manatees died in 2021 — the most deaths in a year since 830 manatees in 2013 — and officials have long feared that toll will grow this winter.
  8. Thousands of fish, birds killed in diesel spill from aging Louisiana pipeline
    Jan. 13• Environment
    Cleanup work is underway at a site where more than 300,000 gallons of diesel spilled just outside New Orleans. Documents show pipeline repairs were delayed after an inspection indicated corrosion was not bad enough to require work immediately under federal regulations.
  9. Why won’t a Black neighborhood park in Tampa get a wall to block I-275 noise?
    Jan. 12• Transportation
    A planned widening of Interstate 275 north of Interstate 4 includes sound barrier walls all along the way, except at Robles Park. Some Hillsborough County officials have a problem with that.
  10. Florida Senate committee advances controversial rooftop solar bill
    Jan. 12• Politics
    A Florida Senate committee on Tuesday gave bipartisan approval to a controversial bill that could mean major changes to the rooftop solar industry in Florida.
  11. Read the full text of Gov. DeSantis’ State of the State speech
    Jan. 11• Politics
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses a joint session of a legislative session, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
  12. EPA moves to crack down on dangerous coal ash storage ponds
    Jan. 11• Environment
    In this May 1, 2018, file photo, the Richmond, Va., city skyline is seen in the horizon behind the coal ash ponds along the James River near Dominion Energy's Chesterfield Power Station in Chester, Va. In the first first major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-burning power plants, the Environmental Protection Agency is ordering utilities to stop dumping waste into unlined storage ponds and speed up plans to close leaking or otherwise dangerous coal ash sites.
  13. Florida senator files bill to set up permanent statewide resiliency office
    Jan. 10• Politics
    Senator Jason Brodeur, R- Lake Mary, embraces someone ahead of the Senate session at the Capitol in Tallahassee on Opening Day of the Florida Legislature on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
  14. A record 1,101 Florida manatees died in 2021. When will it end?
    Jan. 10• Environment
    A manatee swims at Hunter Spring Park on Kings Bay in Crystal River in 2021.
  15. Illegal gill nets used at Skyway Bridge to catch 500 pounds of fish and sharks
    Jan. 7• Crime
    More than 500 pounds of fish and sharks were caught by 10 people using illegal gill nets at the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, state officials announced this week.
  16. Tampa Electric to expand solar in south Hillsborough
    Jan. 4• Business
    Tampa Electric Co. uses sheep to maintain the property at its existing solar farm in the Big Bend area of southern Hillsborough. The utility is seeking a land use change as a precursor for developing nearly 105 acres at the intersection of Big Bend Road and U.S. 41 into another solar farm.
  17. Is Tampa’s tree canopy shrinking because of a change in state law?
    Jan. 3• Tampa
    Tampa's tree ordinance was preempted by a state law in 2019. The city's senior forester says an upcoming analysis of the city's canopy will likely show a reduction in coverage, in part because of the law. [Times files]
  18. Mexican fish extinct in wild successfully reintroduced
    Jan. 2• Environment
    In this undated photo provided by The Chester Zoo shows two "tequila splitfin" fish in an aquarium at the Chester Zoo in Chester, England. This fish that swam in the spring-fed waters of west-central Mexico disappeared toward the end of the 20th century, however scientists and local residents have achieved the unthinkable: the return of a species extinct in nature, but conserved in captivity, to its native habitat.
  19. 5 environmental stories that affected Tampa Bay in 2021 and what’s ahead in 2022
    Jan. 1• Environment
    Dead fish fill the end of a canal near St. Petersburg's Snell Isle Marina off Snell Island on July 16 as a Red Tide bloom persists on the Florida Gulf Coast.
  20. Dam breaks threaten worse flooding in northeast Brazil
    Dec. 27, 2021• Nation & World
    An aerial view Monday shows floods caused by heavy rains in the city of Itapetinga, the southern region of the state of Bahia, Brazil.
  21. Bald eagles are nesting in Florida. And scavenging the landfills.
    Dec. 23, 2021• Environment
    Three bald eagles perch on a dirt mound at the Hernando County landfill.
  22. Conservation groups to sue EPA over Florida manatee deaths
    Dec. 20, 2021• Environment
    Manatees in the central Brevard County stretch of the Indian River will be fed this winter as part of an emergency response.
  23. Biden boosts fuel-economy standards to fight climate change
    Dec. 20, 2021• Nation & World
    President Joe Biden salutes as he steps off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Monday after spending the weekend at his Delaware home. Biden's administration is raising vehicle mileage standards to significantly reduce emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases.
  24. Tarpon Springs declines to halt Anclote project while lawsuits play out
    Dec. 15, 2021• Pinellas
    Stands of mangroves populate the Anclote River shoreline on land where developer Morgan Group has received approval from Tarpon Springs to build 404 apartments.
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