Here's an idea that won't spark much controversy: To provide clean, reliable and affordable energy, and to effectively fight global warming, America needs to upgrade its electricity grid.
In the switching yard at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, about 20 miles outside Chattanooga, stand eight gigantic transformers. The huge machines, which weigh nearly 700 tons each and dwarf the hard-hatte...
Eight states and New York City are suing five of the nation's power companies to force them to decrease carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday.
Imagine earning 5% annual interest on a fixed-income investment--but unlike the highest-yielding CDs, this one requires only a two-year commitment. Sounds enticing, given the paltry rates money mar...
So, what do you like in the market? I always dread that question. My mind flashes forward to a scene years from now, when someone who has taken my advice rises from the gutter where it put him to h...
Every retired investor who values his financial security must be keenly attuned to the creeping threat posed by inflation. Could that be why those new inflation-indexed 10-year Treasury notes sound...
Incoming Postmaster General Marvin Runyon earned his ''Carvin' Marvin'' nickname as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, where he reduced the head count from 33,000 in 1988 to 20,000. He als...
Here's an idea that won't spark much controversy: To provide clean, reliable and affordable energy, and to effectively fight global warming, America needs to upgrade its electricity grid.
In the switching yard at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, about 20 miles outside Chattanooga, stand eight gigantic transformers. The huge machines, which weigh nearly 700 tons each and dwarf the hard-hatte...
Eight states and New York City are suing five of the nation's power companies to force them to decrease carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday.
Imagine earning 5% annual interest on a fixed-income investment--but unlike the highest-yielding CDs, this one requires only a two-year commitment. Sounds enticing, given the paltry rates money mar...
So, what do you like in the market? I always dread that question. My mind flashes forward to a scene years from now, when someone who has taken my advice rises from the gutter where it put him to h...
Every retired investor who values his financial security must be keenly attuned to the creeping threat posed by inflation. Could that be why those new inflation-indexed 10-year Treasury notes sound...
Incoming Postmaster General Marvin Runyon earned his ''Carvin' Marvin'' nickname as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, where he reduced the head count from 33,000 in 1988 to 20,000. He als...
Why would a man with 45 years of experience in the auto industry -- including 37 years with Ford -- leave a lucrative job as CEO of Nissan's U.S. subsidiary to take over the Tennessee Valley Author...
Few government programs have proved as benighted as the federal operation to enrich uranium for use as nuclear fuel in generating electricity. The effort has cost taxpayers billions and given them ...
Retired U.S. Navy Admiral Steven White took over the Tennessee Valley Authority's troubled nuclear program at an annual salary of $355,200, and government officials charged him with violating feder...
Since it hired retired admiral Steven White at a salary of $355,200 a year, the Tennessee Valley Authority has generated controversy and scandal, but no nuclear power (FORTUNE, October 27). In a re...
GOOD NEWS for humans and other species worried about acid rain, beyond the shadow of a trout: this year several utilities are breaking ground by adapting an old technology to burn coal cleanly. The...
''I'M UP TO my elbows in alligators,'' says James C. Miller III, after two months as director of the Office of Management and Budget. He also has other fauna to contend with as he tries to trim som...
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