DETROIT -- General Motors Corp., hoping to boost demand amid a drastic downturn in the U.S. auto industry, will offer employee discounts to nonemploye...
GreenBiz | Joel Makower | Posted 07.25.2008 | Green
This week's announcement by General Motors that it has joined with more than 30 utility companies across the U.S. to work on issues related to electri...
Dan Treul | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home
If McCain picks Mitt Romney, son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney, as his running mate, Obama will almost certainly be forced to devote significant resources to maintain a close race in the state.
Envrionmental Capital | Keith Johnson | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green
Big U.S. companies obviously want a seat at the table when it's time to draw up America's plan to fight climate change. A year after issuing its "Call...
Rep. Jim McDermott | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
While GM may be on the road to financial health, America continues down the same old road of health care going, going, gone for millions of Americans.
Steve Parker | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business
John McCain visited a GM factory and said if cars like the Volt, a plug-in gas/electric hybrid GM is developing, really do make it to market (still a question mark), "hundreds of thousands of jobs will be created." He's wrong.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green
Car culture blog Jalopnik noted that an original owner's manual for the long-gone iconic General Motors EV-1 electric car was on eBay for a million bu...
HybridCars.com | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green
General Motors can't catch a break with its green car plans. As hybrids steadily gained market share in the first half of this decade, the company sta...
Dan Treul | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home
"GM won't change anything until they have every operation overseas," says Danny. "This started back in the 1980s with Reagan... We know we're not going to get any help from McCain."
David Sassoon | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
CEO Wagoner may be confident that G.M. will be a survivor, but Mr. Parker was just handed a death sentence. He won't be able to afford the cancer drug that is keeping him alive.
Steve Parker | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
That the Detroit Three have to build cars and trucks which make sense now and in the future, and which Americans want to buy.
AP | TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
DETROIT — General Motors Corp., struggling to survive, will slash jobs, cut production, sell assets and suspend its dividend for the first time ...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business
General Motors Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner plans to hold a news conference Tuesday morning to discuss actions the company is takin...
New York Times | Matthew L. Wald | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green
A Michigan company, Energy Conversion Devices, plans to announce Tuesday that it is providing the solar electric system for what it says will be the w...
Reuters | Posted 07.07.2008 | Business
(Reuters) - No. 1 U.S. automaker General Motors is planning to cut thousands of white-collar jobs and is considering whether it should sell or stop pr...
Bloomberg | Jeff Green | Posted 07.04.2008 | Business
General Motors Corp., which popularized the 7,800-pound Hummer, may begin selling a mini-car more than a foot shorter than anything else it markets i...
Tom Schey | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green
I must have missed the appointments of Larry, Moe, and Curly as CEOs of our sad sack U.S. automobile companies.
Jessica Jensen | Posted 06.06.2008 | Green
Dear Rick: we'd like to suggest you go a step further and acknowledge that the Hummer was an anachronistic tragedy whose time has come to disappear from the face of the Earth.
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 06.03.2008 | Business
WILMINGTON, Del. — General Motors Corp. officially blew up its old business model Tuesday, closing four pickup truck and sport utility vehicle f...
New York Times | BILL VLASIC | Posted 05.31.2008 | Green
They've been criticized as gas hogs, dinosaurs and land yachts. Now Detroit is hoping to cast its biggest sport utility vehicles in a new light: gree...
Business Week | David Welch | Posted 05.30.2008 | Green
Practically every automaker on the planet is being forced to make cars and trucks that pollute less and go farther on a tank of fuel. Here is what GM ...
AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business
DETROIT — General Motors Corp. said Thursday that a quarter of its U.S. hourly workers will take the company's latest buyout and early retiremen...
AP | DAVID RUNK | Posted 05.23.2008 | Business
DETROIT — General Motors Corp.'s stock dropped almost 5 percent Friday after the company reported that strikes at some of its own plants and par...
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 04.28.2008 | Business
DETROIT — Sagging pickup truck and sport utility vehicle sales have forced General Motors Corp. to shut down one shift each at four North Americ...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
When Katie Couric told Haaretz that "The glory days of TV news...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
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BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
If you're wondering about the recent articles claiming that a study found...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
Wall Street Journal | John D. Stoll | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business