Welcome to Wednesday... The hump in the middle of the week that means the weekend is just a bit closer. While you were waiting for the morning to swing around, some news happened:READ»
"Taxpayers are told subsidies help small, struggling family farmers --
but that couldn't be further from the truth," says Don Carr of the
Environmental Working Group, which calculated that the wealthiest 10%
of American farmers ...READ»
Two California-based projects are the first utility-scale solar installations on federal lands to get the go-ahead from the Bureau of Land Management -- and there are a dozen more to follow.READ»
Giving the lie to claims that the oil had "disappeared," Greenpeace scientists went out sampling and found oil as far away as 300 miles from the spill site.READ»
POM Wonderful's claims about the health benefits of its Pomegranate Juice and POMx supplements go a little too far, according to a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission. READ»
Widespread phone-based wiretapping has become the norm in the U.S., sneaked by legislators by information-hungry agencies using national security as a shield against civil liberty infringements. Now there's news federal types want to expand powers to the Net too.READ»
Nearly a year after the FCC began issuing experimental licenses for the technology, the Feds have officially made the so-called white space spectrum available for wireless broadband. Let the gold rush begin.READ»
In the race to develop better biofuels, no self-respecting oil company wants to be left behind. In recent years, we've seen Shell, Exxon, BP, and Chevron invest hundreds of millions in biofuel technology. Statoil, one of the world's ...READ»
ARPA-E is the U.S. Department of Energy program that awards grants to "moonshot" green technologies. The latest round goes to offbeat ideas like cryogenic carbon capture, nano-magnets, and some very large kites.READ»
We live in a Wi-Fi age surrounded by impressive wireless gizmos, thanks to relaxed rules about wireless transmission. Now the FCC is about to open up lots more "whitespace" radio bands. The real wireless revolution may be in-bound.READ»
Watchdog group The Sunlight Foundation analyzed 10 million lines of data--and discovered trillions of dollars missing from our federal spending database.READ»
New Save the Children and UNICEF Reports reveal how financial mismanagement and environmental insensitivity led to the deaths of four million children.READ»
Despite a seemingly stout business plan, and all the well-known financial, social and educational benefits it would bring, the FCC's just turned down M2Z's application for a coast-to-coast free wireless broadband system.READ»
The strength of China's centralized government means that state policies trump any proactive environmental efforts of private enterprise. This simply mirrors China's modern history, reflecting the power of the Communist state versus the private sector and markets.READ»
Neither American Apparel's financials nor nasty reports of sexist hiring practices are the problem, founder and CEO Dov Charney tells his employees -- and an AA rep tells us. The problem here is immigration reform.
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A group of Republican Senators are requesting the Obama administration block Sprint from receiving crucial telecoms gear from China's Huawei. Why is the GOP standing in the way of trade? READ»
Looking to get into the sustainable technology arena? Consider investing in the green data center market, which is projected to increase from $3.82 billion in the U.S. today to $13.81 billion in 2015. By the same year, energy ...READ»
The world's largest turbine--a 130-ton, metal shaft with twin rotating blades--is making its way on a barge from Invergordon, Scotland to the European Marine Energy Centre test site off the coast of Orkney. READ»
