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As senators across the country bicker about the inclusion of earmarks in the $1.1 billion omnibus bill, there is at least one item included in the legislation that won’t add a penny to the national debt. The four senators representing Massachusetts and Rhode Island have proved successful in getting language that would restrict federal funds from being used in the permitting process related to …

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A bill aimed at driving down federal office rental and commuting costs, giving more flexibility to government workers, and cutting pollution emissions has passed the Houses of Congress. If signed into law, remote worker and mobile technologies are poised to see a boom.

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University of Rhode Island scientists spent more than two years developing scientific standards to measure the effects of a wind farm off the state’s coast. Now the federal government wants to borrow that knowledge for its national standards.

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The study will focus on the section of Claiborne between Napoleon and Elysian Fields avenues

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The power grid in Princeton will be getting a face lift, in hopes of saving residents money.

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Virginia’s senators say the state is getting nearly $2.9 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to help make homes more energy-efficient. Sens. Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner, both Democrats, say the grant announced last week is part of a DOE program to establish Virginia and three other states …

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Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is slated to testify Tuesday in Washington, D.C., at a Western caucus hearing on negative impacts of…

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Offshore wind turbines will line the Atlantic coast; vast solar arrays will cover swaths of the southwestern desert; transmission towers will cradle high-voltage direct current lines and take electricity from the windy Great Plains to the populated coasts. That is the renewable future for the U.S. that the Obama administration seems to envision and, certainly, what Jon Wellinghoff forecasts. And …

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CBS News Investigation Finds 19 Lobbyists Closely Related to Members of Congress; Watchdog Wants Tighter Restrictions

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WASHINGTON — A group of business leaders that includes Cummins CEO Tim Solso wants the federal government to triple the amount of money it spends each year on clean-energy research and development.

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