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GOP Says Energy Dept Tried To Delay Solar Layoffs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican investigators say the Obama administration wanted the failing solar energy company Solyndra to delay announcing employee layoffs until after the 2010 midterm elections. A...
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Energy Department Reports Major Disruptions In Gasoline, Oil Distribution
NEW YORK (AP) — There’s plenty of gasoline in the Northeast — just not at gas stations. In parts of New York and New Jersey, drivers lined up Thursday for hours at gas stations that were struggling to...
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Report: Green-Energy Company Received Almost $1M In Stimulus Funding Day It...
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – Bankruptcy has never looked so lucrative. A123 Systems Inc., an electric-car battery producer based in Waltham, Mass., received almost $1 million from the U.S. Energy Department on...
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Obama Nominates Wal-Mart’s Burwell as Budget Chief
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has tapped Wal-Mart’s Sylvia Mathews Burwell as his next budget chief, thrusting her into the center of Washington’s heated partisan budget battles and is filling...
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Obama Nominates 3 to Cabinet-Level Positions
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signaled his willingness to tackle climate change with his pick of Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, one of three major appointments he...
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Obama Administration Had Advance Warning On Electric Car Failure
WASHINGTON — 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 half-billion...
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Senate Confirms Physicist Moniz As Energy Chief
WASHINGTON (AP) — Physicist Ernest Moniz won unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to be the nation’s new energy secretary. Moniz, 68, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...
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Senior Energy Dept. Official Gave Jobs To 3 Of His Own Children
WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal investigation has found that a senior Energy Department official was actively involved in securing summer jobs for his three college-aged children. The official’s actions...
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Senate Dems Reject House GOP Limits, Push Billions In Additional Domestic...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats controlling the Senate are pushing to spending billions of dollars more than their House GOP rivals on transportation and housing programs despite tough budget limits that...
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House Defies Obama Administration In Energy Budget Bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday voted to slash money for renewable energy research and defy the Obama administration’s decision to close the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in a...
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Nation’s Bloated Nuclear Spending Comes Under Fire
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — At Los Alamos National Laboratory, a seven-year, $213 million upgrade to the security system that protects the lab’s most sensitive nuclear bomb-making facilities doesn’t work....
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Energy Department To Sell Fisker Loan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department says it is selling a $192 million loan made to struggling electric car maker Fisker Automotive Inc. The sale, to be held next month, is the latest setback for a...
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Home Electricity Use in U.S. Falling to 2001 Levels
NEW YORK — The average amount of electricity consumed in U.S. homes has fallen to levels last seen more than a decade ago, back when the smartest device in people’s pockets was a Palm pilot and anyone...
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Obama Touts Fuel-Efficient Trucks in Prince George’s County
play pause Obama in Upper Marlboro Karen Adams/All-News 99.1 WNEW UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (CBSDC/AP) — Drawing a link between reduced fuel consumption and climate change, President Barack Obama said...
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Cleaner Air Could Mean Higher Electric Bills
NEW YORK — Electricity prices are probably on their way up across much of the U.S. as coal-fired plants, the dominant source of cheap power, shut down in response to environmental regulations and...
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Va. Projects Get Funding to Boost Solar Power Deployment
RICHMOND, Va. — The Energy Department is providing funding for two Virginia-based projects aimed at boosting the deployment of solar power. Officials say the state projects are two of 15 across the...
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