Article for Medill: NiSource Inc. gets slammed

A colder than usual year and sinking interest expense helped NiSource Inc.’s earnings leap ahead for the quarter ended Dec. 31, but earnings for all of 2003 dropped a whopping 77 percent from the previous year’s earnings due mostly to the sale of discontinued operations assets. “They took a beating on what they sold,” said … Read more

Article for Medill: The business of saving the planet

About 277,000 tons less of carbon dioxide made it into the air in 2002, according to the Center for Resource Solutions, a non-profit environmental organization in San Francisco. And it’s all because of little things called green tags. By January, sales of those little green tags brought Mainstay Energy LLC’s revenues to about $100,000. And … Read more