Transportation Department makes trucker texti...
posted on: Mar 31, 2010
A truck driver text messaging ban was made permanent Wednesday by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a sign that the government is taking seriously...
U.S. government funds clean-coal research
posted on: Mar 31, 2010
In an interesting example of a public-private research partnership, the federal government is granting money to coal-burning utilities to speed the...
Bailed-out companies begin to extricate thems...
posted on: Mar 30, 2010
Many Americans were apoplectic at the U.S. government’s bailout of embattled financial firms – and, just a few months later, two of the...
Emissions-permit start date pushed back
posted on: Mar 30, 2010
An Environmental Protection Agency program that will require large producers of greenhouse gases (GHGs) to prove they are doing all they can to...
Manifold benefits for individuals, businesses...
posted on: Mar 30, 2010
The recently passed healthcare reform bill has been called a watershed piece of legislation. Whether that hyperbolic treatment is merited remains to...
