| Finally, a foot in the door
Just being with the Giants the last couple of years and losing in the first round, the window of opportunity starts to close a little bit." Until this season, the furthest Feagles had advanced in postseason play was in 1992, when Philadelphia lost a divisional game to the Cowboys. And then, in the chill of a Green Bay evening, it changed. Feagles was the holder on Lawrence Tynes's 47-yard field goal in overtime that gave the Giants a 23-20 win in the NFC Championship game. "It was pretty memorable. I had a hand in it," said Feagles, laughing. "Literally." After all those years, and all those kicks, Jeff Feagles was finally coming home, playing in the final game of an NFL season. Mark Blaudschun can be reached at blaudschun@globe.com .
Energy Dept. Pulls Support for FutureGen
We will not go down without a fight," he said.
The FutureGen Alliance, a coalition of power and coal companies, last month announced that the plant would be built in Mattoon, under a plan that called for the DOE to cover three-quarters of the cost. The site was chosen over Tuscola, Ill., and two sites in Texas.
But the DOE had wanted the announcement delayed until the project could be redesigned and the costs reduced. The department also said it wasn't ready to issue its final notice that Mattoon was environmentally acceptable.
Bodman declined to discuss the Energy Department's plans Tuesday with The Associated Press, and a statement issued by his agency did not divulge what the department has in mind for FutureGen.
While saying it "remains committed to FutureGen's objectives to advance the availability and use of clean-coal technology to meet growing demand and reduce greenhouse gas emissions," the department said it "believes that the public interest mandates that FutureGen deliver the greatest possible technological benefits in the most cost-efficient manner."
Lawrence Pacheco, a spokesman for the alliance, said developers have heard from the Energy Department "about the need to restructure the program," but would not speculate about what might happen.
U.S. mortgage lender Countrywide Financial posts loss
On Tuesday, RealtyTrac said U.S. foreclosure filings in 2007 had risen 75 percent from a year earlier. Countrywide cut about 11,000 jobs, or 18 percent of its work force, from August to December, as it pulled back from high-risk lending. Loan volume fell 44 percent to $69.2 billion. Mozilo has also been faulted for collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in pay and stock options from 2002 through 2007, including the period after the housing crisis began. On Monday, he said he would forfeit $37.5 million in severance and other retirement entitlements. Countrywide faces multiple investigations into its lending practices, lawsuits from shareholders and borrowers, and an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission into Mozilo's stock sales.
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