March 23, 2016

From Utility Dive In a 2-1 vote today, the D.C. Public Service Commission (PSC) approved the proposed $6.8 billion merger between Exelon and Pepco. Chairwoman Betty Kane was the lone dissenting vote. The Commission approved the merger under the new conditions outlined after they rejected a settlement deal struck between the companies, the mayor’s office and other merger stakeholders. At the time, the PSC said the deal would result in

From ComputerWorld MIT: In the city of tomorrow, traffic lights will be replaced by intelligent intersections for controlling urban traffic, seamlessly knitting together flows of cars, pedestrians and bikers, researchers at MIT’s Senseable City Lab said. Vehicles are being built today, and hundreds of millions will be sold over the next decade, that enable vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2X) communication. As

DENVER, CO–(Marketwired – March 23, 2016) – Emerald Oil, Inc. (the “Company” or “Emerald”) (NYSE MKT: EOX) announced today that the Company and its subsidiaries filed voluntary Chapter 11 petitions in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Bankruptcy Court”), initiating a process intended to preserve value and accommodate an eventual going-concern sale of Emerald’s business operations. Emerald has

From BNN The Trudeau Liberals are going more than $29 billion in the fiscal hole in a freshman budget that lacks a path back to balance but promises to boost economic growth by half-a-percentage point this year. Almost $12 billion is being earmarked for infrastructure over the next five years; changes to employment insurance, and a new Canada Child Benefit