President Barack Obama announced Thursday that the Justice Department is assembling a team to "root out any cases of fraud or manipulation" in oil markets that...
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New York City to develop solar power atop landfills, Bloomberg aides say
New York City will create solar power plants atop capped landfills capable of generating power to supply 50,000 homes as part of a renewed effort to reduce...
Cheap energy no more, IEA says
LUXEMBOURG, April 22 (UPI) -- The global energy sector will have to kick into high gear to meet soaring demand, the IEA said as it warned of the end of cheap energy.
Mekong dam delay a reprieve for giant fish
The world's largest freshwater fish, the Mekong giant catfish, can breathe a sigh of relief, at least for now. A decision has been shelved to build a huge dam in Laos
Heating oil phase-out part of NYC clean-air plan
NEW YORK — The city will phase out the use of polluting heavy oils to heat buildings and will begin building solar power plants on capped landfills, Mayor Michael...
BP, Transocean spending more on lobbying
A year after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, two companies at the center of the oil rig disaster intensified their spending heavily to influence ...
Study finds solar panels increase home values
All those homeowners who have been installing residential solar panels over the last decade may find it was a more practical decision than they thought.
Schwarzenegger slams GOP-led bills to block pollution rules
Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday that congressional attacks on Environmental Protection Agency air pollution rules are enough to make him cry.The movie star and former...
Google to buy another 100MW of wind power via Google Energy
Google announced that it has made its second deal via its subsidiary Google Energy, and the search engine giant plans to buy 100 MW of power from a wind farm that's...
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