Steve Newborn

Mote Marine Laboratory announced it has received a $150,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to establish the first center for electronic monitoring of commercial fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico. Mote officials say it's a first step toward gathering more scientifically sound data to inform fisheries management in the entire Gulf.

More than two years after Jeffrey Lill was sickened by liquid that leaked from a package at an Orlando U.S. Postal Service facility, his health continues to deteriorate.

He’s no closer to knowing the name of any chemicals he may have been exposed to.

 The state of Florida and the U.S. Department of Environmental Regulation have come to an agreement today on "numeric criteria" that is aimed at stemming the degradation of Florida's springs, rivers and waterways because of high levels of nutrients such as phosphorous and nitrogen.

Pinellas County commissioners voted 5-1 today to place a referendum on the November 2014 ballot asking residents to approve a one-cent sales tax to pay for light rail and an expanded bus system.

It's now in the hands of voters to approve what would become the region's first light-rail line. It would connect Clearwater with the Gateway area of northern St. Petersburg and downtown St. Petersburg.

It's safe to drink the water again.

And wash dishes, wash the kiddies and the dog and all those things you couldn't do in Tampa after a squirrel chewed through a power line at the city's water treatment plant along the Hillsborough River Friday.

The notice to boil water was lifted early this morning. Here's the official notice from the city of Tampa:

A group of environmental activists and students protested what they claim is the federal government's lack of action in fighting climate change. It coincided with a climate conference at the University of South Florida.

(SOUND: What do we want? Clean energy? When do we want it? Now....)

About a dozen activists gathered on USF's Tampa campus in an attempt to prod the federal government to promote clean energy policies to combat global warming.  Frank Jackalone is with the Sierra Club's Florida Chapter.

The Crystal River nuclear power plant will be retired, the parent company of Progress Energy said today, affecting about 600 employees and ending months of uncertainly over the facility's future.

The reactor has been offline since late 2009, when its concrete containment building cracked during a maintenance and upgrade project.

Officials with North Carolina-based Duke Energy, which owns Progress Energy, had said fixing the plant could take nearly three years and cost billions of dollars.

The Florida ACLU today released its mid-term report on the administration of Gov. Rick  Scott.  The ACLU has filed an unprecedented eleven lawsuits challenging laws coming from Gov. Scott and the state legislature. They've targeted laws ranging from the suppression of early voting to drug testing of state employees and welfare recipients.