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Water conservation is so important to California that it's in the state constitution. Article X, Section 2, says that 'the waste ... of water [should] be prevented, and that the [...]

It won't cool inflation …except the president, at least for the time being AS A solution to rampant inflation, banning price rises and jailing shopkeepers has limited potential. But President [...]

Despite the current brouhaha in the transatlantic news media, the European Commission's latest attack against the card payments industry is unlikely to produce anything radical. The European Union's member states [...]

It is now a few weeks since resale price maintenance on medicines collapsed, and so far the impact has been less than expected. Most of my customers do still appreciate [...]

Before President George W. Bush's visit to California and his meeting with Governor Gray Davis, one issue was quite clear: Davis made it known that he believed electricity price caps [...]

The California gold rush of 1849 might pale by comparison to the California power plant rush of 2001. Despite lingering opposition to building new power facilities, it appears that most [...]

WASHINGTON -- Apr-2 -- (CongressDaily) Prospects are dimming for speedy action by Congress to address California's electricity crisis. Despite ongoing talks among key House members--and a strong desire among many [...]

WASHINGTON -- Apr-2 -- (CongressDaily) Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., may try to block President Bush's two recent appointees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in protest over GOP opposition to [...]

After six months of declining momentum and questions over government resolve, Ontario's electricity industry seems ready to embark on a final push towards market opening and a greater role for [...]

Rep. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the only acknowledged socialist in the House, provided his unique perspective on the two major-party conventions, observing that most Americans 'perceive that both major parties [...]

U.S. officials, asleep at the wheel when OPEC cut oil production, are scrambling to find ways to reduce gas prices, now nearing the $2 per gallon favored by Al Gore. [...]

Rising gasoline prices are driving Republican politicians mad, not because they can't afford the stuff--oil prices, adjusted for inflation, remain lower than mid-eighties levels--but because they can't figure out how [...]

ITEM: Joan Claybrook, president of the activist group Public Citizen, issued a statement on September 1 reading in part: "In the wake of skyrocketing gasoline and oil prices after Hurricane […]

Ed Miliband's proposed energy price freeze is seductive for two reasons. First, it shows a serious attempt to alleviate financial pain caused by high utility bills, and second, it taps [...]

The United Kingdom's Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme is under scrutiny because the UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence has recommended that the UK Department of Health approach four makers of multiple sclerosis drugs about lowering prices. The price controls are also in question because of a lawsuit involving Napp Pharmaceuticals.