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(Associated Press) "Drivers try to do what they can, but they have to go almost all the places they go," says David Greene, a researcher at the Center of Transportation Analysis at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and manager of the Department of Energy website fueleconomy.gov. "There's no magic gizmo that will drastically change someone's gasoline use."...5/31 |
 (Oak Ridger) A new charging station where up to 25 electric vehicles can recharge their batteries at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will likely be the largest in Tennessee....5/27
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The Department of Energy will start its 2011 bus tours of the Oak Ridge facilities on Monday, June 6, and continue through Friday, Sept. 2....5/31
Other Stories
(Reuters) Top Pentagon contractors have been bleeding secrets for years as a result of penetrations of their computer networks, current and former national security officials say....5/31
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National
(Washington Post) With an August deadline looming, the House overwhelmingly refused Tuesday to raise the legal limit on government borrowing, setting the stage for a long, sweaty summer of haggling over the shape of the largest debt-reduction package in at least two decades....6/1
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The budget calls for $6.3 million in reduced funding for federally operated fish hatcheries that raise trout to offset - or mitigate - habitat alterations brought about by the construction of federal dams....6/1 |
(NPR) After logging 122 million miles during 25 spaceflights, space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday, closing out the next-to-last mission in NASA's 30-year program with a safe middle-of-the-night landing.....6/1