When DBM Energy made its record-breaking drive from Munich to Berlin, Germany on a single charge of the KOLIBRI Alpha Polymer battery, there was a lot of skepticism...
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Labor Secretary Hilda Solis urges Congress to take action on mining safety
On the anniversary of the Upper Big Branch Mine tragedy in West Virginia, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis has an op-ed in USA Today outlining her department’s subsequent...
Feds call on industry to repair aging pipelines
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Federal transportation officials demanded Monday that pipeline companies speed up efforts to repair and replace aging oil and gas lines, saying recent...
Auto execs differ on electric car economics
The number of electric cars delivered to customers is making a slow and steady climb. Not including Tesla-which doesn't report official sales numbers—the current...
Tea party group wants Duke Energy chief fired over DNC offer
FreedomWorks, a conservative group aligned with the tea party movement, has launched a petition drive to fire Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers for guaranteeing a $10 million...
Japan seeks Russian help to end nuclear crisis
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has asked nuclear superpower Russia to send a special radiation treatment ship used to decommission nuclear submarines as it fights to contain the...
Transocean admits ‘insensitive’ comment on safety
A top official with Transocean Ltd. — owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded last year in a fatal accident — is expressing remorse over its claim that 2010 was...
Deteriorating oil and gas wells threaten drinking water across the country
A version of this story was co-published with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In the last 150 years, prospectors and energy companies have drilled as many as 12 million...
GE study finds 5% of world's natural gas production wasted per year by flaring
A newly released GE study—Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations—estimates that 5% of the world’s natural gas production is wasted by burning...
United Auto Workers: Upton bill could hobble fuel economy standards
Legislation to permanently block the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate rules could result in litigation over the Obama administration’s vehicle fuel economy...
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