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Libyan clashes hits stocks as oil prices surge
(02-21) 09:00 PST LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) -- Fears that Libya is heading toward deepening chaos hit stocks Monday and pushed oil prices sharply higher. With reports...
BP signs $7.2B India deal
LONDON — BP PLC is paying India's Reliance Industries $7.2 billion to take a stake in key oil and gas blocks, gaining a significant foothold in the Asian country as...
Energy efficient light bulbs survive House cuts
A new attack on the ban on incandescent light bulbs – the one that isn’t actually a ban – didn’t get very far. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC),...
Shale boom won't last, says Russian oil giant Gazprom
MOSCOW, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- The boom in shale gas in the United States won't last as production costs face competition from other sources, officials at Russian energy...
U.S. urged to safeguard supply of 'energy-critical elements'
They are rarer than gold, but they are essential for a broad range of new-energy technologies such as electric cars, wind turbines and solar cells.Researchers call them...
Lula field coud turn Brazil into an oil superpower
Expected oil wealth from the region could be a "passport to the future," as Brazil's new President Dilma Rousseff said, for what is already one of the...
China plans to make a million electric vehicles a year by 2015
China is aiming to put more than a million electric vehicles onto the road each year by 2015, according to the state-run People's Daily. It claims that new plans for...
Amid AZ's push for solar power, water-supply worries arise
Arizona can offer solar-energy developers legendary sun-drenched skies and thousands of empty square miles but not nearly so ample a supply of a third essential...
New study suggests permafrost meltdown will exacerbate global warming
Sinkholes dot the landscape from Anchorage to Murmansk as surface soil layers thaw. Average Arctic temperatures have risen by 2 degrees Celsius in recent years, melting...
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