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• 5 Stocks You Can Feel Good About
Whole Foods has aggressively pursued alternative energy sources, and has now accumulated enough wind-based energy credits to offset 100% of the electricity used in all of its U.S. and Canadian stores. But beyond its excellent record in social ...
• Doubt, anger over dams on Amazon tributary
For the Brazilian government, this is prudent preparation, more than six years in planning, for a burgeoning economy's appetite for electricity. The two dams, the $5 billion Santo Antonio and the planned Jirau dam, will eventually produce 6,450 ...
• Government warns of higher winter heat costs
But across the board, whether one uses heating oil, natural gas, propane or electricity, costs will be higher, said the agency. Users of electricity to heat homes will see the smallest increase, about 10 percent on average, followed by propane, 11 ...
• Squirrel downs power line causing fires, outages
... in the 4900 block of North Hartely, at Wellesley. The animal was killed by the contact which also burned through the power line, causing into fall down. The line fell on a metal fence and a car. The fence became energized and conducted electricity ...
• GE’s profit drops in line with lowered forecast
BOSTON - General Electric Co reported a 22 percent drop in third-quarter net income that matched its recently cut forecast as the global crunch hurt results at its hefty GE Capital arm, offsetting strong demand for electricity-generating turbines and ...