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WASHINGTON - The Senate has begun voting on whether to move ahead on a sweeping health care bill. The roll call began with many of the 100 members seated in their chairs and rising to vote. Such formal voting is common with Supreme Court nominations.
Astronauts Michael Foreman and Randolph Bresnik, presumably still awaiting word on the birth of his second child, adopted a revised spacewalk preparation timeline Saturday after overnight false alarms interrupted their normal low-pressure sleep protocol.
Researchers are hoping to improve solar energy installations by coupling a solar panel to an efficient hydrolysis unit that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen. Daniel Nocera of MIT says the approach could lead to personal solar power units that could get many houses off the grid.
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic senator is calling on the Obama administration to reject an expected request for federal economic stimulus money as part of a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy project because he says it will generate Chinese, not American, jobs.
ATLANTA - UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, is hiking 2010 rates for ground packages by an average of 4.9 percent.
Several hundred people who can't afford dental insurance have a reason to smile today, thanks to a Texas Mission of Mercy outreach program here Nov. 13 and 14. Free dental care was provided to more than 800 patients in the Exhibit Hall of Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. Approximately 100 dentists and perhaps twice that many assistants from Lubbock and across the state signed up. It was a first ...
The staff at Safe Harbor Hospice has formed a "green team" to help reduce their carbon footprint and take better care of Mother Earth. The green team has four major factors they focus on: Recycling, energy conservation, education, and volunteering.
DANCING RABBIT, Mo. (AP) — In the late 1990s, Alline Anderson was a customer service manager for Clif Bar, a California company that makes all-natural and organic energy bars.
At a time of budget cuts, Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter's administration last year paid employees and outside contractors $1.1 million to lobby Colorado lawmakers on legislation ranging from renewable energy tax credits to increasing motor vehicle license fees.... Tax credit - Colorado - Renewable energy - Lobbying - Energy
NAIROBI -- Kenya's Chalbi Desert is a bleak, forbidding stretch of coarse sand and ash-gray ridges broken by clusters of tiny huts. It is also one of the windiest places on Earth, experts say, and it soon will be the site of Africa's largest wind farm.
GOLDEN - Homes and office buildings consume three-quarters of U.S. electricity, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory wants to lower that figure by erecting what it believes will be the largest "net-zero" energy building in the world - one that produces as much power onsite as it uses. The Department of Energy, which runs the Golden-based lab nestled in the foothills west of Denver, and ...
A meeting discussing the opportunities and pitfalls of leasing land for wind energy facilities and the benefits of joining a landowners association is set for 6 p.m until 9 p.m. Monday in the Roosevelt County Community Development Corporation board...
Page County Republican Women hosted guest speaker, Monte Shaw, Nov. 14, 2009, at the Nodaway Valley Historical Museum. He began with background about himself, from growing up in Shenandoah, to working in several major Republican campaigns, to his employment with the National Renewable Fuels Association in Washington D.C. and his move back to Iowa. Currently he, his wife and daughter live near ...
Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the increasing trend of using that logging debris will make those materials too scarce, harming the woodlands.
In addition to teaching students how to help the environment, Patterson Joint Unified School District’s new commitment to energy conservation will allow schools to actively take part in “going green.”
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