Green Energy, Red Flag: Feds seize $21 million from electric car maker
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has seized $21 million from troubled automaker Fisker Automotive Inc. just weeks after the company laid off three-fourths of its workers amid continuing...
View ArticleObama administration had advance warning on Fisker
WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly released documents show that the Obama administration was warned as early as 2010 that electric car maker Fisker Automotive Inc. was not meeting milestones set up for a...
View ArticleDraft rule ends protections for gray wolves
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials have drafted plans to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that could end a decades-long recovery effort that has...
View ArticleSequester Squabble
The U.S. Forest Service is in the business of preventing fires, not starting them.Yet the agency set off alarms in Congress and state capitols across the West by citing the automatic spending cuts as...
View ArticleOil industry: BLM prevents job creation in Calif.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Leading oil industry groups said Thursday federal land managers are blocking new energy development and job creation by postponing all oil and gas lease auctions on prime public...
View ArticleNatural gas export plans stir debate
WASHINGTON (AP) — A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas...
View ArticleWind farms get pass on eagle deaths
CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and...
View ArticleHouse passes GOP bill to speed pipeline approval
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticized the legislation...
View ArticleTea party targeting Southern Co. power monopoly
ATLANTA (AP) — The Southern Co. makes billion-dollar decisions that affect millions of people in Georgia, yet it has attracted little political scrutiny — until now.Leaders of the Atlanta Tea Party are...
View ArticleHorse slaughterhouse accuses USDA of IRS tactics
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A southeastern New Mexico company's plans to convert a cattle plant into a horse slaughterhouse has hit another roadblock, this time over an environmental dispute that the...
View ArticleCha-Ching! Senate passes half-trillion dollar farm bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Monday passed a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill that expands government subsidies for crop insurance, rice and peanuts while making small cuts to food...
View ArticleReport: Assaults increase on rangers, park police
WASHINGTON (AP) — Park rangers, wildlife refuge workers and U.S. Park Police experienced more assaults and threats from visitors last year than in 2011, according to a group that represents federal...
View ArticleMcCain presses Obama on secret emails
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. John McCain on Monday questioned President Barack Obama about his political appointees' use of secret government email accounts at work, saying that Congress cannot...
View ArticleBig Brother, Big Waste: NYC aims to require composting of food scraps
NEW YORK (AP) — Legions of apartment dwellers will soon be asked - and may eventually be ordered - to start collecting food scraps for composting, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest bid to make the...
View ArticleContaminated Communities
Kent County wanted a bike path.Local officials in the Delaware county had their eye on a former landfill, practically across the street from Dover Air Force Base. So in 2005 they bought the property...
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