by Megan Hickey | May 16, 2013 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Amid falling steel prices, a “steel renaissance” depends on the development of cost-competitive energy prices, according to steel executives speaking Thursday. The steel company executives highlighted industrial energy efficiency efforts when they met...
by John Burfisher | May 16, 2013 | Business & Tech
The controversial Keystone XL pipeline, whose approval has been delayed by the Obama administration, would not create the extensive environmental damage that some fear, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology energy economics professor told a House small business...
by Megan Hickey | May 16, 2013 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON – The proposed credit rating assignment system could slow markets and disrupt capital flows while creating new conflicts of interest for credit rating agencies, agency executives told the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday. Standard & Poor’s...
by Mary Lee & Anderson Xia | May 16, 2013 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology, Topics
WASHINGTON — Senators and medical professionals agreed Tuesday that the Medicare payment system must reward quality of care, not the number of procedures administered. The Senate Finance Committee examined ways the nation’s guaranteed health care program could...
by Mary Lee & Anderson Xia | May 9, 2013 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama made expanding the pool of insured Americans and guaranteeing coverage for those with pre-existing conditions cornerstones of his health care reform effort. The resulting Affordable Care Act might well have been written for...
by Megan Hickey | May 8, 2013 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – NASA scientists, engineers, and space legends like Buzz Aldrin met at the Humans to Mar Summit this week to discuss the growing interest of sending humans to the Red Planet by the year 2013. Presented by the George Washington University Space Policy...
