An independent audit will be performed on the $20 billion fund set up to compensate victims of last year's BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Attorney General Eric...
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Judge denies BP request for emails by former Obama adviser on White House oil spill response
NEW ORLEANS — A federal magistrate refused Wednesday to order the White House to provide BP PLC with emails by a former top adviser to President Barack Obama about the...
GM announces real-world smart-grid EV pilot
Hundreds of Chevrolet Volt drivers will participate in a first smart-grid pilot in an effort to increase energy efficiency and offer lower charging costs, GM said.Read...
Electricity demand soars in mid-Atlantic states
As millions of air conditioners sucked power, electricity consumption in the mid-Atlantic region soared on Wednesday beyond the level that planners had estimated would be...
Tesla scores $100 million Toyota RAV4 EV-related contract
Buried within its latest U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, Tesla Motors revealed that its deal with Toyota is to be pumped up, wit
Climate change peacekeeping on agenda of UN Security Council
A special meeting of the United Nations Security Council is due to consider whether to expand its mission to keep the peace in an era of climate change. ...
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AP - Deepwater permits in the Gulf of Mexico have been withheld largely because the industry is unable to prove it could contain another major blowout at the bottom of the...
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In final report, oil spill panel urges tougher oversight of offshore drilling
The presidential commission looking into the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico concludes its work on Tuesday with the release of its final report at 10...
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Reuters - The U.S. offshore drilling agency will begin conducting surprise inspections on oil rigs as part of a new aggressive enforcement effort adopted by the Obama...
Oil spill panel says EPA, NOAA weren't ready to deploy dispersants
The staff members of a presidential commission today criticized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
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Blown-out BP well finally killed at bottom of Gulf
BP's blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has finally been killed once and for all, five months after an explosion sank a drilling rig and led to the worst...
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The deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico has not increased unemployment in the region, says a new report from the Obama administration that counters the...
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Take It With a Grain of (Sea) Salt: Gulf Microbe Study Was Funded by BP
by Marian Wang. Earlier this week, major news outlets ran with headlines about how a new microbe has been found eating up BP's oil, and how microbes have degraded the...
Interior: Drilling freeze is ‘necessary and appropriate’ due to risks
The Interior Department on Saturday defended its controversial six-month ban on deepwater oil-and-gas drilling following revelations that the agency estimated it would...
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