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...buyers competing to purchase energy, sellers auction packages that include renewables. That drives down the price and narrows cost margins, and the savings allow for a higher percentage of alternative fuels in the package. For example, Ingalls Health System, a 563-bed hospital with satellite facilities in south suburban Chicago, bought a plan with 5% green fuels. Ingalls can expect to see a 3,433-ton reduction of CO2 in the first year - plus more than $1.5 million in savings over the course of the three-year contract...
Pittsburgh: Where the Crunch Could Come, 7:00 a.m. E.T. Both sides must think the Pittsburgh area is going to make a difference. Yesterday, John McCain greeted 1,500 at Pittsburgh International Airport, while Hillary Clinton stopped by a suburban Pittsburgh Obama office to encourage the troops. Bill Clinton, meanwhile, was campaigning with John Murtha up the road in Johnstown, trying to buck up the anti-war but veteran-friendly Democratic Congressman. Murtha's reelection once seemed inevitable, until he labeled his constituents "racists" and "rednecks" who would find it difficult if not impossible to vote for Obama. (See pictures...
...seeing similar problems. However, the ACLU adds, most boards of elections have dispatched troubleshooters to fix the problems, leading to only short delays. The larger issue at hand is that in the interim - which was 45 minutes at one Cleveland precinct and at least four hours at a suburban voting location - voters are simply putting their ballots into locked boxes, without the ability to scan them through first. That's turning into a violation of the Help America Vote Act's second-chance voting provision...
...Perhaps the most amusing report came from the suburban town of Brookhaven, in Delaware County, where committee representatives heard complaints about snakes in the building, and structural problems including a collapsed ceiling and broken lights. - By Sean Scully / Philadelphia...
...even in the most conservative areas of the state, for example, Lubbock, early voter turnout records are being broken. Among the 15 big counties, four of the five with 50% or just under turnout are bastions of conservatism - Fort Bend (suburban Houston), Tarrant County (Fort Worth), Collin County (suburban Dallas) and Williamson County (suburban Austin). The fifth county is Travis, home of the state capital Austin and the big blue hole in the red doughnut. - Hilary Hylton / Austin...