Tom Cochran

Mayors Join Industry to Complain About EPA Water Standards

Mayors of America’s cities joined industry and Republican lawmakers to complain about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and urge the agency to back off enforcement of regulations to clean-up drinking water.

Nuclear Renaissance Threatened as Japan Fights Meltdown at Quake-Hit Plant

Global expansion of nuclear power may draw more scrutiny and skepticism as the world watches Japan struggle to prevent a meltdown at a reactor damaged by a record earthquake, a former U.S. atomic regulator said.

Nuclear Renaissance Threatened as Japan's Reactor Struggles

Global expansion of nuclear power may draw more scrutiny after officials in China and India and U.S. lawmakers called for the review of atomic energy plans as Japan struggles with reactors crippled by a quake and tsunami .

Nuclear Renaissance Threatened as Japan's Reactor Struggles

Global expansion of nuclear power may draw more scrutiny after officials in China and India and U.S. lawmakers called for the review of atomic energy plans as Japan struggles with reactors crippled by a quake and tsunami .

Nuclear Renaissance Threatened as Japan's Reactor Struggles

Global expansion of nuclear power may draw more scrutiny and skepticism as the world watches Japan struggle to prevent a meltdown at reactors damaged by a record earthquake and tsunami, a former U.S. atomic regulator said.

White House's Orszag Says Higher Tax on Fund Managers to Pass Within Weeks

Four Senate Democrats and Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts are seeking to exempt venture capital firms from a tax increase on managers of investment partnerships that a White House official predicted is imminent.

Nuclear Waste Needs Permanent Disposal, U.S. Panel Says

The U.S. should set up one or more sites to store radioactive nuclear waste for millenia, members of an Obama administration panel said.

Obama's Nuclear-Power Plan Set Back by Japan Quake

President Barack Obama ’s frustrated efforts to revamp U.S. energy policy may face another setback as Japan works to prevent a meltdown at nuclear-power reactors crippled by last week’s earthquake and tsunami.

"We've been dealing with this for four presidents."

- Tom Cochran on May 31, 2012

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Apple Returning $55 Billion to Investors as Forecast Trails

Sales of New Homes in U.S. Climb 1.5% to 417,000 Rate

Stocks Gain on Earnings, ECB Rate Bets; Euro, Copper Fall

U.S. Stocks Rise as Travelers, Netflix Rally on Earnings

Fake Tweet Erasing $136 Billion Shows Markets Need Humans