Sarah McCammon

The share price of discount travel site Priceline has reached the same altitude it was at during the dot-com boom.

The offshore-drilling giant Transocean is tied in with BP in the public imagination because of its involvement in the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.

First Solar, Inc., has branched out into planning and building large-scale solar power. That strategy has helped the American company rise above plummeting prices for solar panels.

More than 40 years after the “Crying Indian” campaign encouraged Americans to stop pollution, a new "Keep America Beautiful" hopes to boost recycling.

Texas and other states face shortages of drugs used in execution. But that demand isn't yielding a new supply.

What if you could apply the same techniques to government spending that investment advisers use to pick stocks? A Pew-MacArthur report looks at how states are using cost-benefit analysis.

Non-profits are working with state governments to increase use of cost-benefit analyses to learn whether programs and policies are worth it.

The compromise approved by the Senate puts a ceiling on the interest rates for undergraduate student loans.

A new study finds that the rising cost of higher education is shifting costs as families spend less freely.

Nebraska farmers worry the oil pipeline will damage their land or water. Some are putting up obstacles to the route.