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• Area high schools win top awards in Avista video competition

  March 7, 2013 in Washington Voices on Page S1 When Ferris High School students Mark Balabanov, 17, Colin Calvert, 18, and Irina Peregudova, 15, got a class assignment to make an energy preservation video for Avista, they were all …

• Avista’s earnings dip 22 percent

  February 21, 2013 in Business, City on Page A7 Warm weather, a sluggish economy and poor results at a subsidiary all contributed to Avista Corp. announcing a 22 percent decline in 2012 earnings. Avista announced early Wednesday that the … 4

• Warm weather contributes to Avista’s lower 2012 income

  February 20, 2013 in Business, City Warm weather, a sluggish economy and poor results at a subsidiary all contributed to Avista Corp. announcing a 22 percent decline in 2012 earnings. 37

• Behemoth storm drops 2 feet of snow on Northeast

  February 9, 2013 in Nation/World BOSTON (AP) — A behemoth storm packing hurricane-force wind gusts and blizzard conditions swept through the Northeast on Saturday, dumping more than 2 feet of snow on New England and …

• Training under way for new nuclear plant operators

  December 19, 2012 in Nation/World WAYNESBORO, Ga. (AP) — Utility companies are preparing a new wave of workers to run first-of-their-kind nuclear plants, a process certain to influence how workers are trained on the new … 1

• NRC slaps Japanese company on California nuke work

  December 18, 2012 in Nation/World LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Japanese company that manufactured the troubled steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear power plant might be looking for fixes with the wrong test equipment, … 1

• Feds to probe why alarms failed in W.Va. explosion

  December 12, 2012 in Nation/World SISSONVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — Federal investigators are looking into why no alarms sounded as a massive natural gas explosion sent flames as high as hilltops, engulfing homes and a large …

• NY, 6 other states suing EPA over drilling methane

  December 11, 2012 in Nation/World PITTSBURGH (AP) — Seven Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states announced plans Tuesday to sue the Environmental Protection Agency, saying it is violating the Clean Air Act by failing to address methane …

• APNewsBreak: Texas judge halts oil pipeline work

  December 11, 2012 in Nation/World HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has ordered TransCanada to temporarily halt work on a private property where it is building part of an oil pipeline designed to carry tar …

• Energy experts say drilling can be made cleaner

  December 10, 2012 in Nation/World PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the Colorado mountains, a spike in air pollution has been linked to a boom in oil and gas drilling. A thousand miles away on the plains … 1

• Chinese co. to pay $2M for nuke export violations

  December 3, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — A company owned by the Chinese government has pleaded guilty for conspiring to violate nuclear export restrictions on Pakistan and agreed to pay $2 million in fines. …

• Clinton pushes US bid for Czech nuclear project

  December 3, 2012 in Nation/World PRAGUE (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lobbied the Czech government Monday to approve an American bid for a $10 billion expansion of a nuclear power plant, …

• Possible generator tampering found at San Onofre

  November 30, 2012 in Nation/World LOS ANGELES (AP) — Operators of the San Onofre nuclear power plant say someone may have tampered with an emergency generator but there’s no danger because both reactors at the … 1

• BP barred from new US gov’t contracts, land leases

  November 28, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration put a stop to new federal contracts with BP on Wednesday, admonishing the British oil company for a “lack of business integrity” and also …

• 3 BP employees in court on oil spill charges

  November 28, 2012 in Nation/World NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A BP rig supervisor said Wednesday that he is innocent of manslaughter in the deaths of 11 workers in the 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon …

• Western lawmakers seek probe of refineries

  November 27, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Six Democratic senators representing states along the Pacific Coast asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to investigate the role of oil refineries in gas spikes that occurred …

• After Sandy, lower Manhattan limps back to life

  November 26, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The hum of massive mobile generators, boilers and pumps emerges blocks from Manhattan’s Financial District and turns into a steady din south of Wall Street — …

• 2 workers shoulder blame for 2010 BP oil disaster

  November 19, 2012 in Nation/World NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The manslaughter charges brought against two relatively low-ranking BP rig workers in the deadly Gulf of Mexico disaster may be as far as federal prosecutors are …

• Correction: Gulf Rig Fire story

  November 18, 2012 in Nation/World NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a story Nov. 17 about an oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico, The Associated Press erroneously described the Bureau of Safety and Environmental …

• Coast Guard: Body found near burned Gulf oil rig

  November 17, 2012 in Nation/World NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Divers hired by the owner of an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico that caught fire recovered a body in the waters near the site …

• Coast Guard ends search for 2 after oil rig fire

  November 17, 2012 in Nation/World NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard on Saturday evening called off its search for two workers missing after a fire broke out on an oil platform in the Gulf …

• Coast Guard searches for 2 after oil platform fire

  November 17, 2012 in Nation/World NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two oil workers remained lost at sea Saturday, a day after a torch being used to cut an oil pipe ignited a blaze that severely burned …

• EPA turns down states’ request for ethanol waiver

  November 16, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday denied requests from several governors to waive production requirements for corn-based ethanol. A renewable fuels law requires that 13.2 billion gallons …

• Gulf rig fire leaves 4 workers critical, 2 missing

  November 16, 2012 in Nation/World VENICE, La. (AP) — An explosion and fire ripped through a Gulf oil platform Friday as workers used a cutting torch, sending four people to a hospital with critical burns …

• Gulf rig fire leaves 4 hurt, 2 missing; no leak

  November 16, 2012 in Nation/World VENICE, La. (AP) — An explosion and fire ripped through a Gulf oil platform Friday as workers used a cutting torch, sending four people to a hospital with burns and …

• Fire out at Gulf oil rig; 4 hurt, 2 may be missing

  November 16, 2012 in Nation/World VENICE, La. (AP) — An oil rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana sent four people to hospital Friday and two others were believed to be missing, Coast Guard officials …

• Defense lawyers say BP rig workers are scapegoats

  November 16, 2012 in Nation/World NEW ORLEANS (AP) — While BP has resolved a sweeping criminal probe of its role in the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, two company employees charged …

• BP agrees to pay $4.5B; 3 employees charged

  November 15, 2012 in Nation/World NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as the oil giant agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the deadly Gulf …

• Calif. panel rejects quake study near nuke plant

  November 14, 2012 in Nation/World LOS ANGELES (AP) — Citing harm to marine life, California coastal regulators on Wednesday soundly rejected a utility’s plan to map offshore earthquake faults near a nuclear power plant by …

• Experts: Analysis of Indiana blast could take time

  November 14, 2012 in Nation/World INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Investigators looking for the cause of a deadly Indianapolis house explosion got more support for their theory that natural gas was a factor Wednesday when an attorney …

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