As California voters wait to find out whether they’ve suspended a major global-warming law, which requires the state to scale back carbon emissions 25% to 1990 levels by 2020, New Mexico on Tuesday passed its own measure to red…
Thousands of office workers are taking out their own trash, as employers seek to save money and boost recycling efforts.
In Texas, 20,000 state workers now haul their own garbage and recyclables to common receptacles, The Wall Street Journal reported…
Chevron Corp. (CVX) reported earnings of $1.87 for the quarter, down from $1.92 a year earlier. The 2009 results were boosted by upstream asset sales and discrete tax items.
Sales and other operating revenues were $48 billion in the third quarter of…
Oil services firm Halliburton (HAL) has responded to claims that it was aware of test results showing that the cement to be used as a plug for the bottom of the Macondo oil well was unstable.
Federal investigators sent a letter Thursday indicating tha…
International Business Machines (IBM) is searching for a method that will cut devices’ power consumption by 90% and reduce so-called vampire energy – power used by machines when they are turned off.
IBM’s Zurich lab is developing a transistor to regu…