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› U.S. House approves red tide health research amendment
A budget amendment approved by the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday earmarks $6.25 million to study the impact of red tide and other algal blooms on human health. U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Longboat Key, proposed the research funding as an amendment to a broader spending bill.
› Two Tampa companies accused of selling 'virtually worthless' health insurance plans to hundreds of thousands of consumers nationwide
The complaint, filed this month in federal court in Miami, says that Tampa-based Health Insurance Innovations, Inc. and Health Plan Intermediaries Holdings LLC developed "limited benefit indemnity plans'' and paid millions of dollars to a South Florida company, Simple Health, to develop the sales pitch used to lure consumers.
› Orlando utility asks customers what they want for the future of energy
Orlando’s power utility is on the verge of some its most important business decisions ever, including when to retire its two coal plants and how to replace the electricity they produce with more environmentally friendly sources. To answer those vexing questions and chart an overall course to a new future of energy, the Orlando Utilities Commission is seeking advice from thousands of its longtime associates: customers.
› Justices reject challenge to FPL solar projects
The state Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a business group’s challenge to a decision that allowed Florida Power & Light to recoup money from customers for a series of solar-energy projects. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of the Florida Public Service Commission, which in 2017 approved FPL’s plan to recover the costs of the projects through base electric rates.
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