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Energy Technology

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Connie Mack IV Denies Calling Man Jackass by Insinuating Man is Jackass

    According to a blog report, at an event promoting his support of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, Republican Senate Candidate Connie Mack IV called a heckler a "jackass." In a bizarre response today, Mack IV denied that he actually called the man a "jackass," but then insinuated that he did i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    FPL's $268 Million Early Cost Recovery A Ripoff, Pols Say

    If you have electricity in your house, you have paid FPL $268 million ostensibly to build two new reactors at Turkey Point. You'll probably pay nearly $200 million more in 2012. Problem is, those reactors may never be built. Last week we warned that the utility's Turkey Point pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Florida Nuclear Plant Supervisor Fired (or Not) After Testing Positive for Alcohol

    ​Update: Here's kind of a creepy correction: FPL spokesperson Robbins emailed us to say, "The NRC report states: 'The employee's access to the plant has been terminated.' It does not say that the employee was fired. As to whether or not the employee was fired, that is a personnel matter that we c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Michele Bachmann Sticks By Crazy Everglades Oil Drilling Plan

    ​While passing through Florida last week, Tea Party queen and Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann made waves by suggesting she'd be open to drilling for oil in the Everglades. Never mind the fact that scientists claim there's very little oil lying under river of gross, and even fell ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    The Heat Is On! A White Hot Mixtape to Help James, Wade, and Bosh Win Game Five

    We will win. We WILL win.​Alright, we didn't quite heat up the court on Tuesday night. Spirits are down, but the game was close. We just need a little collective faith and musical healing so that we can help our team actually win the Finals. We've already heard all those incredible fan-made ... More >>

  • News

    April 7, 2011

    Letters from the issue of April 7, 2011

    We will win. We WILL win.​Alright, we didn't quite heat up the court on Tuesday night. Spirits are down, but the game was close. We just need a little collective faith and musical healing so that we can help our team actually win the Finals. We've already heard all those incredible fan-made ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Fifty-One Percent of Floridians Don't Think Obama Deserves a Second Term

    ​Floridians don't seem to like much of anyone when it comes to politics. A day after releasing dismal approval ratings for controversial Republican Gov. Rick Scott, Quinnipiac has released a new poll showing that a majority of Floridians don't think Democratic President Barack Obama deserves a sec ... More >>

  • News

    March 31, 2011

    Five reasons Turkey Point could be the next nuclear disaster

    ​Floridians don't seem to like much of anyone when it comes to politics. A day after releasing dismal approval ratings for controversial Republican Gov. Rick Scott, Quinnipiac has released a new poll showing that a majority of Floridians don't think Democratic President Barack Obama deserves a sec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Radiation From Japan Has Arrived: Our Food and Water Are Exposed

    via Flickr BlatantNews.comRadiation in your food and water? Fuggedahboutit!​Due to devastation caused by the Tsunami that recently hit Japan, the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is leaking radiation. It might not sound like a big deal to us, except for the fact that said radiation is traveling all t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Turkey Point: Five Reasons Miami's Nuclear Power Plant Is Apocalyptically Unsafe

    ​With Japan on the brink of a devastating meltdown, nuclear power is coming under increased scrutiny around the globe. We talked to Jupiter-based Thomas Saporito, a former instrument control technician and safety whistleblower at nuclear power plants in Florida, Arizona, and Texas. Saporito now wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Ros-Lehtinen, Diaz-Balarts Deemed Not Conservative by American Conservative Union

    ​The American Conservative Union, the group now headed by Miami lobbyist Al Cardenas, has released their 2010 ratings of congress and they've deemed the three Cuban-American Republicans who represented much of Miami-Dade county not conservative. In fact, Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario and Lin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Marco Rubio and Rick Scott Are Pissed Offshore Drilling is Banned off Florida

    ​After escaping major damage from the BP oil spill this year, the people of Florida should breath a sigh of relief that the Obama administration announced today that offshore drilling will be banned in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and off the Atlantic coast of Florida for at least the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Obama Picketed by Gay Rights Activists with Boats & Weather Balloons: Five Lamest NObama Protests

    Ian Goldin/GetEQUAL.orgA GetEQUAL protester arrested earlier this year in D.C.​Yesterday afternoon, President Obama gazed out over Alonzo Mourning's yard in Coral Gables, past the brightly-painted garden gnomes, and said to himself: What the fuck are giant weather balloons doing here?At least that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Kendrick Meek Will Not Share Endorsements with Charlie Crist, Thank You Very Much

    ​Democratic Senate Candidate Kendrick Meek has declined the endorsement of influential environmental group the Sierra Club by basically claiming that he's greener than them. What's got Meek so mad? Well, the group made a joint endorsement throwing their support behind Charlie Crist as well.

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Marco Rubio, Hurting From "Drill, Baby, Drill" Support, Scuffles to Address Leak

    Every day that the shattered remains of the Deepwater Horizon keeps bleeding oil into the Gulf, Marco Rubio seems to fall a little farther behind his nemesis Charlie Crist in the polls.The biggest reason? Charlie gets to strut around Pensacola Beach every day in rolled up shirtsleeves, talking about ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    More Photos From Hands Across the Sand Protest on South Beach

    Photo by Riki Altman​This past Saturday starting at 10:30 a.m. hundreds of locals, visitors and random people joined hands between Fourth and Eighth Streets to protest offshore oil drilling and encourage use of renewable resources. The event was part of Hands Across the Sand, a global day of actio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    BP Oil Spill Benefits Cuba, Fidel Castro

    While Deepwater Horizon continues spewing black crude into the Gulf of Mexico, Cuban commies might be rejoicing. That's because the oil spill could be the strongest argument yet for ending the embargo.El Máximo and Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has signed an offshore drilling deal with C ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2010

    Say Hello to Your Mother For Me

    While Deepwater Horizon continues spewing black crude into the Gulf of Mexico, Cuban commies might be rejoicing. That's because the oil spill could be the strongest argument yet for ending the embargo.El Máximo and Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has signed an offshore drilling deal with C ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2010

    The Gang Green

    While Deepwater Horizon continues spewing black crude into the Gulf of Mexico, Cuban commies might be rejoicing. That's because the oil spill could be the strongest argument yet for ending the embargo.El Máximo and Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has signed an offshore drilling deal with C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Jack Johnson Tour Stop Will Actually Make Air Cleaner in West Palm Beach

    Even if Jack Johnson's mellow, acoustic slices of unbridled happiness aren't for everyone, at least when he comes to Cruzan Amphitheatre August 26 as part of his just-announced U.S. tour, he won't be screwing with our lungs. (We have a feeling that Lady GaGa fans will need more of a consolation afte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    FPL Gets An Obama Stroke Job As Company Sets Out to Destroy National Park

    Alex Izaguirre​Could there have been a more ruthless, diabolical, state utility monopolizer to receive $200 million in federal stimulus money than Florida Power & Light? I'm not the only one questioning the federal government's decision either.President Barack Obama announced FPL's stimulus bo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Bill Nelson Will Filibuster the Hell out of Offshore Drilling

    Bill Nelson went to space one man, he's seen some things. We don't even know why we're trying to meet our energy needs with oil anymore, when we all know if we could tap into the source that powers Sen. Bill Nelson, we'd be able to meet the global projected power needs for the next two centuries, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2009

    City of Miami Announces Smart Grid

    via MidwaySoon you will be able to control your energy use too, but in a way less cool way. It's probably the Miami Herald's duty to be covering this boring, but potentially substantial breaking news. But apparently they're too busy smoking it up in honor of Pulitzer Day! So now I have to trudge thr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    FPL Refuses to Answer Public Concerns over Nuclear Safety at Turkey Point

    Just before midnight last February, the top nuclear operator at Turkey Point quit on the spot and stormed out of the plant, convinced that profit-hungry FPL executives were pushing the nuclear reactor to restart too soon after a shutdown. A little mishap you might have heard of in a Ukranian town ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Toot! Toot! Mayor Diaz Hops Aboard the Pickens Plan Train

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  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Ken Salazar Wants to Drill, Baby, Drill Off Florida's Shores

    President-elect Obama's choice of Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to head the Department of the Interior was met with praise by those hoping to see another Latino in the cabinet, but is being met with concern by some environmentalists. "The Department of the Interior desperately needs a strong, forward-lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2008

    Green High-Rise Has Erection Problems

    President-elect Obama's choice of Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to head the Department of the Interior was met with praise by those hoping to see another Latino in the cabinet, but is being met with concern by some environmentalists. "The Department of the Interior desperately needs a strong, forward-lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    Frightening Turkey Point Nuclear Shutdown

    President-elect Obama's choice of Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to head the Department of the Interior was met with praise by those hoping to see another Latino in the cabinet, but is being met with concern by some environmentalists. "The Department of the Interior desperately needs a strong, forward-lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2008

    Senator Mel Martinez Appears on The Daily Show, Says He Supports McCain (Shocker)

    President-elect Obama's choice of Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to head the Department of the Interior was met with praise by those hoping to see another Latino in the cabinet, but is being met with concern by some environmentalists. "The Department of the Interior desperately needs a strong, forward-lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2008

    Twin Vets Helping People Go Green

    President-elect Obama's choice of Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to head the Department of the Interior was met with praise by those hoping to see another Latino in the cabinet, but is being met with concern by some environmentalists. "The Department of the Interior desperately needs a strong, forward-lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2008

    Chávez cut the lights? Conspiracies Abound.

    President-elect Obama's choice of Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to head the Department of the Interior was met with praise by those hoping to see another Latino in the cabinet, but is being met with concern by some environmentalists. "The Department of the Interior desperately needs a strong, forward-lo ... More >>

  • News

    July 5, 2007

    Letters from the Issue of July 5, 2007

    “I hope the real message of Jesus can be heard over the banging of hate drums”

  • News

    June 28, 2007

    Letters from the Issue of June 28, 2007

    "I hope you stay on this. Nobody else seems to have the balls to do it.”

  • News

    June 21, 2007

    Clever Green

    Florida is starved for electricity. Some eco-renegades are growing their own.

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2007

    Happy Earth Day...China

    Florida is starved for electricity. Some eco-renegades are growing their own.

  • News

    April 19, 2007

    Floater Alert!

    "Finally, no more fretting over free-range floaters when planning a day at the beach."

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2007

    Taking the LEED -- Maybe

    "Finally, no more fretting over free-range floaters when planning a day at the beach."

  • Home Entertainment

    June 22, 2006

    Shark Bites

    Jaws Unleashed is as sloppy as it is gory

  • Calendar

    April 7, 2005

    It's Easy to Be Green

    Jaws Unleashed is as sloppy as it is gory

  • News

    May 22, 2003

    Return of Three Mile Island?

    Exelon plans to build a new nuclear power plant. Ho-hum.

  • News

    October 10, 2002

    The Big Cypress Deal

    The cover story is conservation, but the Bush boys have their hands in the taxpayers' pockets again

  • Recreation

    May 17, 2001

    Best Place To Jet Ski

    Turkey Point Inlet

  • News

    August 17, 2000

    The Energizer

    Forget the bunny. Robin Parker has a battery that might save the world.

  • Shops and Wares

    May 11, 2000

    Best Toy Store

    Dr. Einstein's Science Store

  • News

    June 4, 1998

    Talking Turkey Point Blues

    The feds want to know: Is a proposed airport too close to Turkey Point?

  • News

    January 29, 1998

    Place Your Seatbacks in the Upright Position and Prepare for Meltdown

    The busy new Homestead airport will be just five miles from Turkey Point

  • Music

    September 18, 1997

    Rotations

    The busy new Homestead airport will be just five miles from Turkey Point

  • News

    August 21, 1997

    Chomp in the Swamp

    Tracking South Florida's endangered crocodiles is a business best left to experts and maniacs

  • News

    November 28, 1996

    Notes from the Underground

    Impoverished and imperiled, Cuba's independent journalists stubbornly cling to the notion of a free press

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