A security firm that contracted with Miami-Dade Transit overbilled the agency more than $6 million for time its guards did not actually work, according to a county audit released Thursday. ...more

May 9, 2008

Get rid of the federal gas tax - at least for the summer. Tax big oil to help the rest of us out. Get drilling in that Alaska refuge. Soaring gasoline prices are suddenly the nation's No. 1 crisis, and all the presidential candidates are offering cures. ...more

May 2, 2008

Global warming and rocketing oil prices are making nuclear power fashionable, drawing a once-demonized industry out of the shadows of the Chernobyl disaster as a potential shining knight of clean energy. ...more

January 13, 2008

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

December 17, 2007

Careers in nuclear engineering look especially bright as demand for electricity and other factors spark a turnaround for the industry. ...more

December 16, 2007

The Florida Energy Commission on Friday delayed key votes on greenhouse gas reduction, renewable energy and car pollution standards - halted by outcries from utility companies and disagreement among its own members. ...more

October 20, 2007

Employers have begun to discover troubling racial differences within their 401(k) retirement plans, a gap they say could leave today's black workers far less financially prepared for retirement than whites. ...more

October 11, 2007

Florida, a state that has fought hard to preserve the ban on oil production off its shores, has effectively closed the door on another traditional source of energy. ...more

October 9, 2007

Tampa Electric Co.'s announcement on Thursday that it has pulled the plug on plans to build an innovative 'clean coal' power plant in Polk County follows the cancellation of at least three other coal plant proposals in Florida. ...more

October 5, 2007