| Oct 30, 2013 | Environment / HealthAre you tired of the political brinksmanship, eleventh-hour deals, and avoidable financial crises that characterize business as usual in Congress? So is the wind energy industry. Once again, one of the few mechanisms in the tax code designed to reward clean-energy...
| Oct 2, 2013 | Food / FarmingOne hundred calories per serving, two servings per container, three grams of fiber, product of USA, may contain traces of soy, manufactured in a facility that processes wheat. We’re accustomed to seeing labels on our food that give us this information. However,...
| Aug 14, 2013 | Environment / HealthSharron Camaratta bites her lips. She never thought of this as a major problem until 2007. That’s when she read that certain brands of lipsticks contain lead, a substance that can cause brain and nervous system damage. So she stopped wearing the problematic...
| May 1, 2013 | Economy / BusinessWhat’s a fair interest rate to pay on a loan? If you think a 300 percent annual percentage rate (APR) is no big deal, you can stop reading. But if you’d be outraged to learn that some of the country’s biggest banks — like Wells Fargo, Regions , US...
| Mar 6, 2013 | Environment / HealthPresident Barack Obama is on a rhetorical roll on the issue of climate change. “The 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15,” Obama pointed out to Congress and the American people in his State of the Union address. “Heat waves,...
