Elliott Negin

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Unless Congress acts soon, the wind industry will have to trim its sails--and its workforce.

An essential federal tax break for the fledgling industry, scheduled to expire at the end of the year, has become a victim of Washington...

Every so often, a West Virginia commune descends on Washington, D.C., to hawk T-shirts and bumper stickers emblazoned with the slogan "Stop Bitching, Start a Revolution."

That's essentially what happened 42 years ago when more than 20...

General Motors CEO Daniel Akerson recently ended his company's longtime financial support for the Heartland Institute, a leading climate change denier organization. Then why is GM still a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council? (Susan Walsh/AP)

The relatively unknown American Legislative Exchange...

A worker at Goold Orchards in Schodack, N.Y., was pruning apple trees two weeks ago. This week, orchards from the Midwest to the East Coast were threatened by overnight frosts. (Mike Groll/AP)

Last week, when I cautioned in my

March used to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb. Now it comes in like a lamb and goes out like a mouse. Although the vernal equinox occurred last Tuesday, some parts of the country have been experiencing...

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A recent front-page story in the Washington Post announced the results of a new Post-ABC News poll that found nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way President Obama is handling gasoline prices.

Too bad presidents...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's insistence that the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant in Nebraska fix its flood protection deficiencies helped avert disaster when the Missouri River overflowed last summer. (Photo: Nati Harnik, Associated Press)

When negative reinforcement doesn't work, maybe positive...

Southern Company subsidiary Georgia Power has already begun preparing a site at its Vogtle nuclear plant to build two new reactors. (Photo: Southern Company)

My office sits about a block from the Nuclear Energy Institute's (NEI) headquarters in downtown Washington, and...

With apologies to Charles Dickens, whose 200th birthday was this week, it's the best of times and the worst of times for Monsanto, the agribusiness giant that is aggressively marketing genetically engineered crops -- and millions of tons of pesticides...

The Wall Street Journal should preach what it practices.

News Corporation, the newspaper's owner, talks the talk and walks the walk. Last March, News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch -- yes, Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Fox News Channel -- issued a...

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I watched the two Republican presidential candidate debates in South Carolina last week, and although the contenders spent quite a bit of time bickering over economic issues (as well as bashing each other), they ignored the elephant in the...

CSPAN viewers were treated to an...

The Washington Post flunked Climate Science Reporting 101 this week, fumbling an opportunity to remind its readers about the threat global warming poses right here, right now.

On Monday, the day the latest round of annual U.N. climate negotiations opened in Durban, South Africa, the paper ran a

Congress passed a slimmer budget bill for five federal agencies late last week. Given the deficit, slimmer is better, right? At $130.4 billion, however, it was smaller than...

Two months ago I wrote about National Farmers Market...

Fox Business last month sat House Speaker John Boehner down for his take on the collapse of Solyndra, the California solar panel maker that squandered a $535-million federal loan guarantee. When asked if the government should be "gambling taxpayer money on green energy companies," the Ohio Republican...

In case you missed the announcement, this week is National Farmers Market Week. No matter. If you shop regularly at one of the more than 7,000 markets across the country, every week is farmers market week. That's true in my neighborhood, where FreshFarm Markets started the first producer-only...

Last week, a government panel and an independent organization each produced a punch list for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to ensure the safety of U.S. nuclear plants in light of the accident that occurred earlier this year in Japan. One to-do list came from an internal NRC...

If you studied Greek mythology in grade school, you may remember the story of Cassandra. Apollo fell in love with her and granted her the gift of prophecy. But she spurned him, so he placed a curse on her ensuring that no one would believe her predictions. Later, when she...