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School kids urge Crayola to rethink recycling
A group of California grade school students wants Crayola to start a recycling program for spent plastic markers, but the company doesn't appear ready to make such a move. About 40 students at Sun Valley elementary school in San Rafael, Calif., have been promoting an online petition aimed at nudging ...
Geothermal efforts reach crossroads in Nevada
Geology made Nevada a key player in the world of geothermal energy, in which heat from the Earth's core is recovered as steam or hot water and used to generate electricity. With an estimated resource capacity of up to 2,125 megawatts in development, the Silver State boasts the largest number ...
US gov't sets stiff tariffs on China solar panels
The Obama administration moved Thursday to impose stiff new tariffs on solar panels made in China, finding that Chinese companies are improperly flooding the U.S. market with government-subsidized products. The Commerce Department said Chinese producers had dumped solar cells and panels in the United States at margins ranging from 31 ...
Bangladesh announces probe into Grameen Bank units
Bangladesh has ordered a four-member commission to investigate 54 businesses linked to the pioneering microlender Grameen Bank founded by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. The probe came weeks after Finance Minister A.M.A. Muhith said the bank's board had not authorized most of the affiliates. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ...
Nevada panel seeks balance to protect sage grouse
A special panel appointed by Gov. Brian Sandoval is on a fast-track edict to find a way protect sage grouse without sacrificing Nevada's economic development efforts or rural lifestyles. At its inaugural meeting Tuesday, the 10-member Greater Sage Grouse Advisory Committee was told the governor's goal is to have a ...
Mid-Atlantic wind transmission line clears hurdle
A huge underwater power line to serve wind farms planned off the East Coast cleared a regulatory hurdle Monday, although construction is still years away. The project, known as the Atlantic Wind Connection, would enable up to 7,000 megawatts of electricity to be produced at offshore wind farms from Virginia ...
BLM Director Bob Abbey to retire
A longtime Interior Department official who has headed the Bureau of Land Management for the past three years, Bob Abbey, is retiring. The 60-year-old Abbey has directed the land management agency since 2009, sharply increasing its focus on renewable energy, along with its traditional duties of managing oil and gas ...
Romney says Obama has failed on energy policy
Republican Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama taking credit for increased American energy production is like Romney claiming responsibility for the Red Sox's World Series wins when he was Massachusetts governor. In each case, neither one has anything to do with the other, he said Wednesday. Standing near oil drilling ...
Hobbs, NM, picked as site of scientific ghost town
A scientific ghost town in the heart of southeastern New Mexico oil and gas country will hum with the latest next-generation technology — but no people. A $1 billion city without residents will be developed in Lea County near Hobbs, officials said Tuesday, to help researchers test everything from intelligent ...
Official flips switch on solar plant near Vegas
The first commercial solar array approved and built on federal public land began producing electricity Monday from a sun-baked site in the Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas near the Nevada-California state line. Before flipping the switch on the Enbridge Silver State North Solar Project, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ...
Top Berkshire execs take questions at meeting
Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and vice chairman Charlie Munger spent more than five hours Saturday answering questions from shareholders, reporters and stock analysts. Here is a sample of their comments on a variety of topics: ___ BUFFETT'S SUCCESSOR: Buffett has said one of his most important jobs ...
As Japan shuts down nuclear power, emissions rise
The Fukushima crisis is eroding years of Japanese efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, as power plants running on oil and natural gas fill the electricity gap left by now-shuttered nuclear reactors. Before last year's devastating tsunami triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, Japan had ...
Geithner calls China currency reforms promising
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told President Hu Jintao on Friday that China's moves toward a more market-oriented exchange rate are "very promising" and said economic relations are improving despite occasional tensions. Geithner, along with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, met Hu during an annual high-level dialogue at which ...
Notes and quotes from the Louisiana Legislature
The Louisiana House unanimously agreed Thursday to expand a 10-year local property tax exemption and make it available to more businesses, but only after they included more hurdles for businesses to clear before the tax break could be offered. The package of bills (House Bills 674 and 694) sought by ...
Crisis-hit Japan mulls shift to renewable energy
Another long, stupefyingly hot summer is looming for Japan just as it shuts down its last operating nuclear power reactor, worsening a squeeze on electricity and adding urgency to calls for a green energy revolution. On Saturday, the last of the country's 50 usable nuclear reactors will be switched off, ...
US presses China over currency in economy talks
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged Beijing to let its tightly controlled currency strengthen and improve market access amid trade strains at a high-level economic dialogue Thursday. Beijing has allowed the yuan to rise gradually but Washington and other trading partners complain it still is undervalued, giving Chinese exporters an ...
AdWatch: Obama ad says Romney sent jobs overseas
TITLE: "Swiss Bank Account" LENGTH: 30 seconds. AIRING: In the battleground states of Virginia, Ohio and Iowa. KEY IMAGES: The ad opens with the words, "Over the top, erroneous, out of context" and shows images of a wind farm with the words, "Big oil's new attack ad," a reference to ...
BPA orders NW wind farms to curtail production
The Bonneville Power Administration twice ordered Pacific Northwest wind farms to cut production in recent days because it has a surplus of power from hydroelectric dams. The agency, which manages much of the power grid in the Northwest, confirmed it issued the orders during the early morning hours of Sunday ...
Protect Our Winters mobilizing skiers, boarders
Backcountry pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones says he's seen the effects of climate change up close after 18 years of heading to Alaska for deep winter powder. "Our season ends a week earlier than it used to. The glacier we use to land on, we can't anymore," Jones said. It's a ...
China's dream of electric car leadership elusive
China's leaders are finding it's a lot tougher to create a world-beating electric car industry than they hoped. In 2009, they announced bold plans to cash in on demand for clean vehicles by making China a global power in electric car manufacturing. They pledged billions of dollars for research and ...
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