House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is pressing the country’s major automakers for information about a series of closed-door...
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Carol Browner: Sweeping energy, climate bills are out of fashion
The era of big energy legislation is over. Carol Browner, President Obama’s former climate czar, said it has become clear that sweeping energy and climate change bills are...
GM offers loaner cars amid Volt probe
For the last five years, General Motors Co. has touted its battery-powered Chevrolet Volt as a technological marvel in hopes the car would recast the company's image...
EU says climate pact not enough, wants deal by 2015
DURBAN (Reuters) - The world needs a far more ambitious plan to cut emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases than the Kyoto Protocol, European Union climate...
GM exec confirms 2014 Chevrolet Cruze plug-in hybrid model
The Chevrolet Cruze compact sedan is an important car for General Motors. It's hugely outselling its lackluster predecessor, the Chevy Cobalt, and the EPA rates the...
UN: farmers must produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed population
A quarter of farmland is highly degraded, according to the first report into the state of the world's land resourcesThe United Nations has completed the first global...
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