Santo Domingo, Feb 8 The Dominican Republic government announced the implementation of an energy program to save $250 million USD per year.

Pressure from a dam, its reservoir's heavy waters weighing on geologic fault lines, may have helped trigger China's devastating earthquake last May, some scientists say, in a finding that suggests human ...

(AP) - Erica Olivares, 25, laughs while helping her niece, Deandreya Olivares, 6, write a story about her life at the Casey Family Programs building in Cheyenne, Wyo. on Monday, July 28, 2008. Olivares is an alumni of the juvenile justice system and helps to mentor children once a week for up to an hour. Olivares has helped raise her niece since she was 4 months old. (AP Photo/Brandon Quester).

(AP) - Erica Olivares, 25, draws pictures with Isibel Hutchinson, 4, at the Casey Family Programs building in Cheyenne, Wyo. on Monday, July 28, 2008. Olivares is an alumni of the juvenile justice system and helps to mentor children once a week for up to an hour. (AP Photo/Brandon Quester).

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Gallons of dirty grease the city will collect each week as part of a new grant-funded program to create biodiesel and other fuels. Share tips and e-mail the ...

(AP) - Graphic shows comparison between select areas of the House-approved and Senate proposed economic stimulus plans; 2 c x 3 1/2 in; 96.3 mm x 88.9 mm

(AP) - Bronx resident Claudette Colvin talks about segregation laws in the 1950's while having her photo taken Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009 in New York. More than 50 years after her refusal to surrender her bus seat to a white woman set the stage for a similar act of defiance by Rosa Parks, Colvin is finally getting her due as a civil rights pioneer.(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

City officials and independent engineers plan to announce this month that they've completed work on sf.solarmap.org , a Web site that allows San Franciscans to plug in their address and estimate the cost - and ...

An independent energy retailer is cranking up its business to provide services for a state-owned enterprise, feeding electricity into the wholesale market.

(AP) - In this photo released by the U.S. Postal Service, four stamps honoring President Abraham Lincoln are to be released Monday, Feb. 9, 2009, marking his 200th birthday anniversary. (AP Photo/U.S. Postal Service)

President Barack Obama's plans to lead America out of recession rest in part on a task bigger than a moon shot and the Manhattan Project put together, as complicated as any feat of economic engineering in the ...

(AP) - In this photo provided by CBS, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., appears on CBS's 'Face the Nation' in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/CBS Face the Nation, Karin Cooper)

(AP) - Graphic shows sales of drugs used for fibromyalgia and compares grant funding to other diseases; 1 c x 6 1/4 in; 46.5 mm x 158.75 mm; 2 c x 3 1/4 in; 96.3 mm x 82.55 mm

Environmental companies held their own during the first part of the economic downturn.

(AP) - In this photo provided by FOX News, Larry Summers, chairman of the White House National Economic Council, appears on 'Fox News Sunday' in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/FOX News Sunday, Freddie Lee) MANDATORY CREDIT: FREDDIE LEE, FOX NEWS SUNDAY

From upgrading the electricity grid to rebuilding bridges to computerizing medical records, there are plenty of ways the economic-stimulus bill aims to prop up the economy and create millions of jobs.

(AP) - In this photo provided by ABC News, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, appears for an interview on ABC's This Week, in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/ABC News, Lauren Victoria Burke)

(AP) - The 32-Foot blue 'Mustang' sculpture is seen at Denver International Airport with the terminal in the background on Friday, Feb. 6, 2009. A year after it was installed, Luis Jimenez's 'Mustang' sculpture has become a hot topic of conversation. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

(AP) - The American flag flies at the U.S. Capitol, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009, in Washington. One of President Barack Obama's top economic advisers forecast Sunday a difficult struggle with Congress over Senate cuts of $40 billion for state and local governments from the administration's massive spending and tax cut package to stimulate the failing economy. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Evan Chrapko stands in front of his new biorefinery near Vegreville. It uses manure from a nearby feedlot to produce biogas which is used to generate electricity.