Mariah Blake

hen Thomas Shaw gets worked up, he twists in his chair and kneads his hand. Or he paces about in his tube socks grumbling, Theyre trying to destroy us, and The whole thing is a giant scam. And Shaw, the founder of a medical device maker called Retractable Technologies, spends a lot of time being […]

he ultraconservative faction on the Texas state school board owes its breathtaking clout largely to one man: Rick Agosto, a San Antonio Democrat who regularly votes with the group, giving it the paper-thin majority it needs to push its agenda forward. Why does he do it? Some fellow board members chalk it up to vote […]

In the fall of 2002, Peter L. Corsell, a twenty-four-year-old former CIA analyst, decided to try his hand at the energy business. At the time, he knew nothing about the industry, apart from a few stories he had read in the Wall Street Journal. But he had a vague sense that renewable energy was going […]

A little-known policy is turning sleepy central Florida into a green energy hub. Could it do the same for America at large?

Rethinking your opposition to nuclear power? Rethink again.

n July 2007, Baltimore-based UniStar Nuclear Energy made history by applying for a permit to build a new 1,600-megawatt reactor on Marylands Chesapeake Baythe first application the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had seen in nearly three decades. It has since sought approval for an additional three plants in Missouri, New York, and Pennsylvania. Behind these bold […]