Study says feds miss energy deadlines
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The government for decades has failed to meet legal deadlines for tougher energy efficiency standards for appliances and other equipment, costing consumers and industry tens of billions of dollars in electric costs, a congressional study said Thursday.
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MINISTERS were accused yesterday of delaying the publication of a report on the damaging effects of passive smoking for fear of increasing pressure on the Government to ban smoking in public places.
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A government task force  examining the effect the media might have on childhood obesity  delayed the release of its report on Thursday.
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Their appeals were met by rebukes from lawmakers of both parties, who warned that time was running out.
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Those fuel-economy estimates posted on new cars and trucks are baloney. The government agency in charge of them doesn&#39;t mean them to be; in fact, the US Environmental Protection Agency seems unusually scrupulous about its ...
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WASHINGTON -- An inventory has found another case of missing data involving nuclear weapons, this time at the Energy Department&#39;s regional office in Albuquerque, NM, the department disclosed Thursday.
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The government's record on delivering renewable energy is under attack.
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A government report grossly underestimates the potential for domestic production of the alternative fuel. Is it incompetence or an intentional slight? In Autopia.
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Future energy security will require development of new nuclear power plants, coal that is less polluting and tougher federal requirements on automobile fuel economy, a nonpartisan panel of energy experts says.
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Electricity bills must go up so the government can meet its renewable energy target, a report finds.
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'Supplier' issues slowing progress Ninety-two out of 150 councils will miss a government deadline to implement systems for sharing information about vulnerable children.â¦
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The Federal Government says it is interested in slowing global warming, even though it has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
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By H. JOSEF HEBERT  WASHINGTON - A dozen states would be blocked from imposing new requirements on automakers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under a draft energy bill being prepared for a vote later this month.
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Burning fossil fuels could postpone the next ice age by up to half a million years, researchers at a British university said Wednesday.
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James J. Mulva, chairman and chief executive of ConocoPhillips, spoke about his concerns that Congress and the country were not doing enough to meet the publicâs energy needs.
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Unable to extend tax breaks as part of a broad energy bill two months ago, lawmakers are trying to attach some of them to an emergency economic aid package containing rebates for millions of taxpayers.
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The owner of the Indian Point nuclear power plants near New York City could face penalties for not keeping close enough tabs on minute amounts of radioactive material, federal regulators said.