Articles by Greg Mazurkiewicz

President George W. Bush has proposed changes to corporate 401(k) plans to enable employees to diversify their investments more and prevent future disasters such as the situation when workers lost virtually all of their retirement savings due to the failure of Enron.

Energy trading company Enron has not handed over documents about its many partnerships to a Senate subcommittee investigating its failure.

Air-source heat pump shipments jumped 8% to set a new single year record in 2001 of 1,442,355 units compared to 2000, according to Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) statistics.

The state of New York is practicing what it preaches in the design and construction of two environmental centers. Stony Kill Farm Environmental Center in Wappingers Falls and Rogers Environmental Education Center in Sherburne will now feature “green” additions.

Noting that “economic activity is beginning to firm,” the Federal Reserve decided this week to keep its target interest rate unchanged at 1-3/4%.

Two new wind power plants in Pennsylvania have nearly tripled the wind power capacity in the eastern United States.

Green Mountain Energy Co. (Austin, TX) announced that it will help construct a 25-kW solar power system at Lake Farmpark in Kirkland, OH.

Xcel Energy (Minneapolis, MN), Cinergy Global Power, and enXco Inc. announced that a second commercial wind farm in Colorado is generating electricity.

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) launched a new Gas-Fired Listing Mark at a press conference at the 2002 International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition (AHR Expo).

In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Jan. 29, President George W. Bush declared that “The state of our union has never been stronger.”