by Nina Lincoff | Mar 15, 2011 | Business
WASHINGTON—Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, discussed his op-ed entitled Activism Tuesday, published by International Finance on March 3, at the Council on Foreign Relations. Greenspan defended his “controversial” statement that the sloth of...
by Nina Lincoff | Mar 9, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON—The world economy’s transition toward a global green economy “is not only possible, but it is already on the way,” Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), said Wednesday. But Steiner said that unless nations...
by Nina Lincoff | Mar 2, 2011 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON—Peter Meier, an independent energy economist and consultant, spoke Wednesday about renewable energies in developing countries at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. According to Meier, the future of wind power as a cost-effective...
by Nina Lincoff | Mar 1, 2011 | Environment, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Overcoming the United States’ next Sputnik moment—the first came when the Soviets shocked 1950’s America by rocketing a tiny satellite into space—may depend on a brand new idea. The shiny new goal at the end of the current global technology race...
by Nina Lincoff | Feb 22, 2011 | Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON—A NASA panel reiterated last week’s official cooperative agreement notice that the International Space Station National Laboratory will soon be opened up to non-government actors like universities and non-profit organizations. Innovation and research taking...
by Nina Lincoff | Feb 15, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON —More than nine years following the mailing of anthrax letters that killed five people and sickened 17, a National Research Council committee reported Tuesday that the F.B.I. overstated the connection between the anthrax in the letters and spores from a...
by Nina Lincoff | Feb 8, 2011 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON— The Brookings Institution hosted a panel of experts on battery technology for electric vehicles Tuesday, who focused on the future of lithium battery technology in transportation and the pipeline between scientific discovery and the marketplace. Battery...
by Nina Lincoff | Feb 1, 2011 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON—The influential U.S. Chamber of Commerce unveiled a plan on Tuesday that’s at odds with much of President Barack Obama’s clean energy agenda. The chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy presented what it calls “realistic, bipartisan solutions to our...
by Nina Lincoff | Jan 26, 2011 | Business, Environment, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON—Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on Wednesday began to put detail on President Barack Obama’s plan to use clean energy as an engine of job growth. “If there’s a cheap source of clean energy,” Chu said, “the world will gobble it up.” Echoing themes from the...
by Nina Lincoff | Jan 18, 2011 | Business, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived Tuesday for a state visit amid protests and concerns over China’s human rights policies. The White House said Tuesday that President Barack Obama will address human rights with Hu during meetings on Tuesday and...
by Nina Lincoff | Jan 11, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON— The commission President Barack Obama set up in late May to look into the Deepwater Horizon accident issued its final report on the largest oil spill in U.S. history Tuesday, recommending that Congress, federal agencies and the oil industry undertake...
by Nina Lincoff | Jan 5, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON—Vice President Joe Biden, in his role as president of the Senate, has now sworn in 50 senators, 16 of them entering their freshmen term, at the official ceremony that started shortly after noon on Wednesday. But just down the hall in the Old Senate Chamber,...
