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In its latest bid to help finance the car of tomorrow, the Obama administration said it would lend more than $500 million to Irvine-based Fisker Automotive Inc. to develop a pair of plug-in hybrids. The loans, announced today, come from......

by Mark Silva We hadn't had time until now to contemplate the loan that the U.S. government is giving a California-based company backed by former Vice President Al Gore that is building a hybrid sports car in Finland that will......

Now for a quick update on three government-related stories that we???ve been following: First off, Congress approved a bill that will allow three-wheeled vehicles to qualify for U.S. Department of Energy funding. President Barack Obama is expected to sign...

by Mark Silva Will the "cap and trade'' legislation that the House has passed and the Senate is weighing cost people money? "Yes sir,'' says one of the Senate sponsors, Sen. John Kerry. The cost of inaction, he says, is......

And the official toasts by India's prime minister Manmohan Singh and Obama....

Two Southern California utilities were awarded more than $125 million in stimulus funds from the Department of Energy today to demonstrate “smart” electric grid systems and test energy storage projects. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power...

by Jim Tankersley Of course Steven Chu - Cabinet secretary and Nobel Prize-winning physicist - has a Facebook page. And of course Chu, like pretty much everyone with a Facebook page, has used it to share some highlights of his......

by Mark Silva "Pay grades'' may be quaking in Washington. Vice President Joe Biden said today that the question of what sort of criminal penalties the Virginia couple who got into the White House during a State Dinner without authorization......

The federal government on Friday announced it will hand out $600 million for next-generation biofuels projects, including those being developed by several California companies....

President Obama went to a Home Depot in northern Virginia today to pitch energy independence as a surefire way to produce jobs. And he said, several times, that weatherizing or insulation is sexy, explaining that it's cool to save money.......

It's her Destiny to perform at tonight's dinner: Beyonce at the Grammy Awards in January. (LA Times/Jay Clendenin) by Katherine Skiba And the prize goes to: Beyonce. The Grammy award-winning superstar will perform Wednesday night on the South Lawn......

[Updated at 9:43 a.m.: The Obama administration has given BP permission to move ahead with its much-anticipated attempt to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil leak. From the Joint Information Center: "Federal On-Scene Coordinator Rear Admiral Mary Landry,...