Installations of solar panels are expected to soar by a third this year, the price of solar power is now cheap enough to compete neck and neck with gas and coal-fired power in places like California, and the fledgling industry received a vote of confidence last week when U.S. President Barack Obama announced a groundbreaking plan to curb power plant emissions. Wall Street, however, has been dumping solar shares this
With continued uncertainty in global markets, the Godfather of newsletter writers, 91-year-old Richard Russell, covered the big picture and the monster that’s scaring all investors. The legend also discussed the chaos in China.
[Marketwired] – B2Gold Corp. reports its operational and financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2015. The Company previously released its gold production and revenue for the second quarter of 2015 …
By Alison Uralli FARMINGTON, N.M. (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection agency told the Navajo Nation president on Thursday that her agency would work closely with the Native American tribe in handling a toxic waste spill into river waters from a defunct Colorado gold mine. Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye has pledged to take legal action against the EPA, which has taken responsibility for inadvertently causing the
(Reuters) – Billionaire hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen will host a fundraiser Saturday for Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie in New York’s summer playground of East Hampton, according to an invitation seen by Reuters. The $2,700-a-pop luncheon at Cohen’s mansion will not be the first time that he has shown support for the New Jersey governor as he seeks the Republican Party nomination for the November 2016 election. Real
Fifteen state attorneys general filed a court petition in Washington to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules to curb carbon emissions from power plants until courts have weighed in on whether they are legal. States from Alabama to West Virginia that oppose the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan filed for the stay in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and asked for a ruling by Sept.
SILVERTON, Colorado (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that surface-water testing revealed very high levels of lead, arsenic, cadmium and other heavy metals as a sickly-yellow plume of mine waste flowed through Colorado.
