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U.S. Department of Energy

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    At a Time When Texas Electricity Is Scarce, Does It Make Sense To Export It To Mexico?

    A company that supplies electricity to Texans called American Electric Power filed to renew its application to export electricity to Mexico with the U.S. Department of Energy back in December. It operates a 720-megawatt coal-fired power plant near Vernon, and apparently it has been supplying our so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    Charging Up City Hall: They're Plugging in Electric Vehicle Charging Stations All Over

    ​A couple of months back we noted that as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's $115-million EV Project, which will spend a few years analyzing if and how much folks actually charge their rides, San Francisco-based ECOtality will be plugging in electric vehicle charging stations at a handful of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Coming to Fair Park As Part of Energy Dept.'s "EV Project"

    ​The U.S. Department of Energy has coughed up $115 million for something called The EV Project, rolled out in October 2009 with the intention of spending the next 36 months analyzing how and how much folks actually charge their electric cars. A report's due in 2015, and Dallas is among the 18 citi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Gang Green: The City Council's Looking to Spread the Seed of the Community Garden

    The missus, in conjunction with the 5-year-old who lives in our house, recently dug up a hunk of backyard to grow a garden -- because, look, the boy will eat green only if he can personally yank it out of the dirt, whatever works. And a few other folks in the neighborhood have the hots for a communi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    Weatherstripping West Dallas

    Mayor Tom Leppert's made it quite clear in recent months: West Dallas sits high atop his to-do list. To the checklist, add this item: weather-stripping, caulking and insulating some 400 homes that aren't terribly energy efficient. The city council's Housing Committee will get the full details today ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2008

    AFI Dallas: And the Winners Are ...

    Mayor Tom Leppert's made it quite clear in recent months: West Dallas sits high atop his to-do list. To the checklist, add this item: weather-stripping, caulking and insulating some 400 homes that aren't terribly energy efficient. The city council's Housing Committee will get the full details today ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2008

    Current Energy Gets Big Push from Time (And Now, Apparently, Us)

    Mayor Tom Leppert's made it quite clear in recent months: West Dallas sits high atop his to-do list. To the checklist, add this item: weather-stripping, caulking and insulating some 400 homes that aren't terribly energy efficient. The city council's Housing Committee will get the full details today ... More >>

  • News

    May 25, 2006

    Running on Fumes

    You've got to have balls to sell BioPerformance's hot product--mothballs

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    From Russia, with bugs

    Scientists from the former Soviet Union's top-secret biological weapons lab join with Dallas researchers to fight a common enemy: the deadly Ebola virus

  • News

    July 23, 1998

    Getting dumped

    Despite shoddy science, bad economics, and catastrophic health risks, a West Texas border community may become the nation's nuclear dumping ground

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