U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce

The owner and director of the specialty pharmacy tied to a deadly meningitis outbreak has declined to testify before a congressional committee investigating the matter. Barry Cadden, co-founder of the New England Compound Center, told lawmakers he...

Name: Morgan Griffith Running for: U.S. House of Representatives, 9th District (incumbent) Party: Republican Birthday: March 15, 1958 Official websites: http://morgangriffith.house.gov/ and http://www.morgangriffithforcongress.com/ Biography:...

* Aging control systems vulnerable to attack-experts * Infrastructure malfunctions loom as hackers probe networks * U.S. power grid target of daily cyber attacks By Jim Finkle May 22 (Reuters) - Cybersecurity researcher HD Moore discovered he could...

(Reuters) - Cybersecurity researcher HD Moore discovered he could use the Internet to access the controls of some 30 pipeline sensors around the country that were not password protected. A hacking expert who helps companies uncover network...

WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - Several power utilities say they face a barrage of cyber attacks on their critical systems, a report by two Democratic lawmakers found echoing warnings from the Obama administration that foreign hackers were trying to bring...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Several U.S. power utilities say they face constant cyber attacks on critical systems, according to a report by two Democratic lawmakers amid warnings from the Obama administration that foreign hackers are seeking to attack the electric...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the White House already reeling from three major controversies, some Republican lawmakers are zeroing in on what they perceive is another possible scandal tied to President Barack Obama's landmark health reform law just as it...

Amid a spate of promising economic news, home values are climbing. Now for the bad news. For the first time in human history, the concentration of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is nearing the milestone level of 400 parts per million....

* House Republicans seek identity of companies contacted * Senate Republican calls on Sebelius to cease fund-raising By David Morgan WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - An Obama administration effort to raise private donations to help implement President...

Climate change is causing glaciers to melt, heat waves to become more intense, species to become extinct and low-lying island nations like Tuvalu to disappear altogether. To this list of calamities, U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee has added another: Climate...

Stay offline until a permanent fix is found. That's the advice Michigan Congressman Fred Upton has for a troubled southwest Michigan nuclear power plant. Last weekend, a leak at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant In Van Buren County sent radioactive...

The entry into Lake Michigan of 79 gallons of what officials at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission describe as "very slightly radioactive'' water has drawn its share of attention, very little of it positive. The leak...