Count your weather forecasts among the possible victims of automatic federal budget cuts set to begin this week. The cuts would hit two troubled government satellite programs and potentially exacerbate a coverage gap that’s already expected to leave forecasters with...
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Hurricane Irene is seen from space from the International Space Station, as it churns off the east coast of the United States in the Atlantic Ocean, in this file photo.
Weather Report? Sequestered
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Secretary of Commerce John Bryson.
Obama’s Troubles at Commerce
Commerce hasn’t been kind to President Barack Obama. The federal department, that is. Getting someone to run the sprawling department responsible for everything from digital television conversion to the Census, fisheries management to foreign trade, has tripped up Obama since before he even took...
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An employee assembles photovoltaic panels in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China.
Solar Tariffs Equal Cloudy Forecasts for Some U.S. Companies
Keep an eye out tomorrow for an announcement from the Commerce Department, which is expected to slap tariffs on imports of some Chinese solar products. SolarWorld Americas Inc., the Hillsboro, Oregon-based subsidiary of Germany’s SolarWorld AG, along with six other...
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