by JACOB FISCHLER | Nov 13, 2012 | Business & Tech, Environment
WASHINGTON — Warning of crushing economic impacts if a tax break for the wind energy industry expires at the end of the year, a bipartisan group of governors joined Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa on Tuesday in urging Congress to renew the tax credit. Iowa Gov....
by Beth Lawrence & Micaela Meaney | Nov 9, 2012 | Business & Tech, Environment, Sports
WASHINGTON — Green is more than a team color for the Philadelphia Eagles. By the end of the year the team’s stadium, Lincoln Financial Field, will generate enough energy from 14 wind turbines and 11,000 solar panels to power every home game. “One of the...
by DeJonique Garrison & Hayat Norimine | Nov 8, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Oil futures climbed Thursday from the biggest drop of the year, but experts remain pessimistic longer term about the energy outlook. Oil futures increased as much as 1.5% after crude oil plunged $4.27, or 4.8%, on Wednesday — the biggest slide...
by Erin Massey | Nov 8, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — While Americans are exhaling a sigh of relief to be employed, if at all, the discussion of work-life balance is still at the top of many people’s priority lists. And while the needs of families have greatly changed since the early 20th century, especially...
by MICHELLE SALEMI | Nov 1, 2012 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Innovations in mobile devices are offering more than bigger touch screens and fancy colors: They’re connecting people from shore to shore on global health. The mobile phone is a powerful tool that about 83 percent of American adults carry around in their...
by GILLIAN WHITE | Oct 31, 2012 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON — Congress doesn’t “have the stomach” to achieve a large-scale compromise on the fiscal cliff and the nation’s debt problem in the near-term, no matter who wins the election, a leading bipartisan expert says. While plans to resolve the deficit have taken...
