energy-policy

Fed officials touch a market nerve

By Sabri Ben-Achour

September 12, 2016

Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee in June. — Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images

Governors offering their (opposing) thoughts spark volatility in markets.

POSTED IN: central banks interest rates monetary policy

First renewable energy boat to sail around the world

By Donna Tam

September 12, 2016

A man works on the hull of the Energy Observer on Sept. 6 in Saint-Malo, western France. The Energy Observer will be the first autonomous boat powered by hydrogen and renewable energy. — LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images

The “Solar Impulse of the seas” starts a historic 6-year journey next year.

POSTED IN: technology Science renewable energy

First US off-shore wind farm on track to generate power

By Jon Kalish

September 06, 2016

Wind turbine blades at a port in Providence, prior to being installed. The first off-shore wind farm in the U.S. is nearing completion off the coast of Rhode Island. — Ambar Espinoza/RI Public Radio

The five turbines of the Deepwater Wind project in Rhode Island are now complete.

POSTED IN: wind alternative energy renewable

Trump calls for "extreme vetting" and more sanctions

By Kimberly Adams and Molly Wood

August 15, 2016

Republican candidate for President Donald Trump holds a campaign event at the Kilcawley Center at Youngstown State University on August 15, 2016 in Youngstown, Ohio. In his address, Trump laid out his foreign policy vision for America. — Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Republican nominee Donald Trump delivered a foreign policy speech in Ohio Monday.

POSTED IN: Trump foreign policy 2016 election Iran sanctions Egypt

Clinton economic policies rely on tax changes

By Kimberly Adams

August 11, 2016

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton plans to tax corporations that move jobs outside of the country to pay for her initiatives. — Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

In a speech near Detroit, Clinton said the rich and corporations should pay more.

POSTED IN: Clinton 2016 election tax code stimulus Fiscal policy

The world's central banks could use a break

By Mark Garrison

August 11, 2016

To spur growth, governments need to turn to fiscal policy.

POSTED IN: interest rates monetary policy Taxes

A Texas range war over a natural gas pipeline

By Lorne Matalon

July 18, 2016

The Trans-Pecos Pipeline is expected to send 1.4 billion cubic feet of Texas natural gas per day to Mexico. — Lorne Matalon/Marketplace

A pipeline carrying natural gas to Mexico from Texas will across remote ranches more than a century old.

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