“Utilities” on The Daily Caller

Citi’s Tobias Levkovich conducted a survey of big investors, wherein they revealed, among other things, their favorite stock market sector for the year (as well as their least favorite). (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration took separate actions this week to protect clean air and federal wilderness areas, reaffirming that the White House can pursue its goals without depending on help from an increasingly combative Congress. (more)

PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) — On land poisoned by toxins from a long-gone manufacturing era, more than 6,500 solar panels face the south sky, capturing the sunlight of a late autumn day in the Berkshire Mountains. (more)

SANYA, China (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday made a rare visit by an American official to a Chinese island once a flash point in relations between the powers and pressed Beijing to settle territorial disputes with its smaller, wary neighbors. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wind, solar and other clean energy technologies produce jobs and are essential for the country’s environment and economy, President Barack Obama said in promoting his administration’s efforts. (more)

McGREGOR, Texas (AP) — Rep. Chet Edwards, an imperiled Democrat deep in the heart of Republican territory, finds exiting American Legion Post No. 273 slow going. Supporters and well-wishers keep stopping him. (more)

ATLANTA (AP) — Power utilities are trying to buy the next wave of nuclear reactors much like a consumer buys a light bulb: right off the shelf. (more)

KHAN BANI SAAD, Iraq (AP) — A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children’s hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets. (more)

BUSHEHR, Iran (AP) — Trucks rumbled into Iran’s first reactor Saturday to begin loading tons of uranium fuel in a long-delayed startup touted by officials as both a symbol of the country’s peaceful intentions to produce nuclear energy as well as a triumph over Western pressure to rein in its nuclear ambitions. (more)

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia announced Friday it will begin the startup next week of Iran’s only atomic power plant, giving Tehran a boost as it struggles with international sanctions and highlighting differences between Moscow and Washington over pressuring the Islamic Republic to give up activities that could be used to make nuclear arms. (more)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Abnormally high radiation levels were detected near the border between the two Koreas days after North Korea claimed to have mastered a complex technology key to manufacturing a hydrogen bomb, Seoul said Monday. (more)

LONDON (AP) — Europe’s governments are struggling to deal with a mountain of debt made worse by the past three years of global financial and economic turmoil. (more)

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — He stands all day, bent over noisy machines, cutting giant sheets of steel and feeding them into monster-sized presses so powerful the concrete floor rumbles beneath his size-16 feet. (more)

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top nuclear official says that work on Iran’s first nuclear plant is on schedule and the reactor will start operation by August. (more)

BUCHANAN, N.Y. (AP) — Contract negotiations between the owners of the Indian Point nuclear plant and its largest union continued Monday after the two sides agreed to stop the clock after failing to reach agreement by a strike deadline. (more)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — It was just five years ago that fishing guide Bob Sparre had all the salmon he could handle. He brought beaming clients back to shore loaded with prized Chinook salmon after a morning trolling the rivers and channels of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in northern California. (more)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Exxon tanker that lost power Sunday while leaving Alaska’s Prince William Sound is under way again. (more)

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Purdue University researchers are testing a new design for nuclear power plants to make sure it can survive strong earthquakes. (more)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A judge invalidated a landmark pact Thursday intended to curtail Southern California’s overuse of water from the Colorado River but left the deal in place during an appeals period. (more)

BEIJING (AP) — A U.S. solar power company said Saturday it will help build a series of solar thermal power plants in China, as the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases tries to decrease its heavy reliance on coal, imported gas and oil. (more)