By Jason Grant and Bill Wichert/The Star-Ledger. HOBOKEN -- The National Guard has been brought in to rescue marooned residents. The mayor has journeyed into swamp-like depths to help people stranded in buildings overlooking the murky waters that … Dems push climate change issue in wake of Sandy, but some scientists skeptical - Fox News
As the East Coast grapples with the fallout of Hurricane Sandy, Democrats are sounding the alarm over climate change, suggesting that carbon pollution played a role in bringing about the deadly storm. "Hurricane Sandy is exactly the type of extreme weather … Suncor Q3 net profit rises 21 percent; cuts capex outlook
(Reuters) – Suncor Energy Inc , Canada’s biggest oil and gas company and the dominant oil sands producer, said late on Wednesday its third-quarter net profit rose 21 percent, but it cut its capital-expenditure outlook due to a slow pace of spending on oil sands projects. The company reported net income of C$1.56 billion ($1.56 billion), or C$1.01 per share, from C$1.29 billion, or 82 Canadian cents, for the third quarter of 2011. Operating profit fell 27 percent to C$1. …
Cameco cuts long-term uranium output goal on slow nuclear growth
(Reuters) – Canada’s Cameco Corp on Wednesday lowered its long-term uranium production target by 10 percent, a sharp shift in strategy in response to slower demand growth for the fuel after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The uranium market has been in a downward spiral since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in March 2011, crippling the Fukushima-Daiichi atomic power plant. …
Airports and stock exchange return, but NYC still struggles 2 days after killer storm
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Flights resumed, but slowly. The New York Stock Exchange got back to business, but on generator power. And with the subways still down, great numbers of people walked across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan in a reverse of the exodus of 9-11.
China launches trade probes on EU solar products
BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Thursday that it will launch anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations into imported European Union solar-grade polysilicon, in the latest instance of tit-for-tat trade tensions in the global solar industry. China' ;s Commerce Ministry said in two statements posted to its website that it would roll the investigations into ongoing probes of U.S. and South Korean made solar products. … 
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