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• Colorado courts GE for solar panel plant

  April 14, 2011 2:26 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Colorado lawmakers are trying to convince General Electric to bring the nation's largest solar panel manufacturing plant to the state. General Electric acquired the Arvada-based solar manufacturer PrimeStar Solar last week. Since then, GE has said Colorado is being considered for the site of its new... more »

• FDA panel split on withdrawing diet pill Meridia

  September 16, 2010 10:51 AM

  Federal health advisers are split over whether to withdraw the diet pill Meridia due to evidence that it increases heart attack and stroke risks, worrisome signs that led European regulators to ban the drug earlier this year. A panel of Food and Drug Administration advisers voted 8-8 on whether... more »

• Congress looks at untaxed airline fees

  July 14, 2010 8:35 AM

  All those extra fees that consumers are paying to fly add up to billions of dollars for the nation's airlines and a House panel is taking a closer look. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics says airlines collected $7.8 billion last year in ancillary fees -- more than a third... more »

• Obama to meet oil spill panel chairmen today

  June 1, 2010 8:07 AM

  President Barack Obama plans to hold his first meeting today with the co-chairmen of an independent commission investigating the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Obama was to meet with Bob Graham, who is a former Florida governor and U.S. senator, and William K. Reilly, a former head of... more »

• First lady releases child obesity recommendations

  May 11, 2010 10:23 AM

  A government panel says women could help reduce childhood obesity by maintaining a healthy weight when they become pregnant and by breast-feeding their babies. The suggestions are among 70 recommendations in the panel's report, released Tuesday by first lady Michelle Obama. One in 3 American children is overweight... more »

• Climate panel faces major review

  March 11, 2010 9:34 AM

  The world's biggest scientific guns are being called in to mop up after unsettling errors in the reports written by the U.N. climate panel. The United Nations and the beleaguered Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said Wednesday that a Netherlands-based group of 15 national academies of science will study... more »

• Solar company wants to build plant on front range

  February 12, 2010 5:57 PM

  Plans are in the works to bring more energy production to Southern Colorado and with it hundreds of new jobs. Helios Solar announced on its website, it wants to build at least one manufacturing plant along Colorado's front range. The plant would manufacture revolutionary solar units called Suncubes. Pueblo and... more »

• Pueblo West warehouse installs 500 solar panels

  February 5, 2010 3:55 PM

  A food distribution warehouse in Pueblo West is investing in a renewable energy that should reduce their electric bill by 23%. Andrews Foodservice Systems is installing 500 solar panels on the roof of their building. The cost of the project was about $650,000. George Andrews III, the company's president says... more »

• University of Colorado uses sun to power buildings

  January 31, 2010 8:35 AM

  Three buildings on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus are being powered by the sun, thanks to 272 newly installed solar panels. The panels are atop the Coors Event Center, where the CU basketball teams play, the Wolf Law Building and the housing system's maintenance center. The panels are expected to... more »

• DU panel: Legalization of immigrants beneficial

  December 9, 2009 2:51 PM

  A University of Denver panel says millions of illegal immigrants should be given a path to legal status after the country finds a way to stop illegal immigration. The panel of business and government leaders say in a report released Wednesday that legalizing as many of the estimated 12 million... more »

• Financial overhaul passes panel

  December 2, 2009 10:55 AM

  A House panel has approved legislation that slaps new restraints on big Wall Street institutions and demands greater openness from the nation's central bank. The bill is part of a sweeping regulatory overhaul that the House plans to vote on next week. The House Financial Services Committee voted 31-27 along... more »

• Confronting domestic violence

  October 9, 2009 3:32 PM

  Dozens of red painted plywood cutouts stood silently in the frosty air outside the Pioneers Museum in downtown Colorado Springs Friday morning. The faceless wooden figures symbolize victims of domestic violence from the Colorado Springs area who've died in recent years at the hand of their abusers. Earlier in... more »

• NASA's moon mission grounded by Obama panel

  September 8, 2009 3:10 PM

  A White House panel of independent space experts says NASA's return-to-the-moon plan just won't fly. The problem is money. The expert panel estimates it would cost about $3 billion a year beyond NASA's current budget. The plan to revisit the moon by 2020 was proposed five years ago by then-President... more »