by Marian Wang Preliminary tests show that a lack of oxygen in part of the Gulf of Mexico caused thousands of fish to die, according to...
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GM Fervently Denies Sub-30 MPG Fuel Economy Claim for Chevy Volt
Yesterday the internet was abuzz with the rumors that the Volt would get less than 30 miles per gallon after the battery was depleted (after the first 40 miles of range...
NASA Finds Cash to Fund Fast, Clever, Unusual Tech For Future Space, Air Missions
The aim is to discover "revolutionary" thinking about communications, power, energy storage, propulsion, safety and security.
The next deepwater drilling frontier? Greenland.
by Terry Macalister, Guardian The rain was tipping down on the cluster of multicolored buildings in the heart of the capital of Greenland but there was no dampening the...
Global market for utility-scale energy storage could grow 15.8% per year to over $10 billion in 2015
Utilities know they have to figure out how to store energy produced intermittently, such as wind and solar, or store energy from fossil-fuel power plants to keep the grid...
Apple Refuses To Take Part In UK's First Green Cell Phone Ranking System
Photo by Gonzalo Baeza HernándezThe UK has started up its own green ranking system for mobile handsets, but Apple wants no part of it. The company has refused to allow the...
Americans using less energy, thanks to recession, technology
Coal and oil use in the United States saw a significant dip in 2009 because of the current economic downturn and advances in technology, particularly wind power.
Bill Gates: Spike in clean energy R&D needed
The software tycoon turned philanthropist argues that bigger public investments in R&D are a necessity.
Job Losses Over Drilling Ban Fail to Materialize
The worst forecasts have failed to materialize as companies wait to see how long the moratorium will last before making cuts.
Rechargeable Fabric Batteries to Charge the Army of the Future
A team working on lithium-ion battery technologies that can be poured into any shape or woven into fabrics reported progress in using a non-harmful virus to develop...
Ford Partners With Portland General Electric To Prepare For EVs
Ford Motor Company and Portland General Electric will collaborate to help prepare the city of Portland and the Pacific Northwest for the operation of electric vehicles....
Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada
An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation....
White House: Energy stimulus is working
A White House report unveiled Tuesday says tens of billions of dollars in stimulus energy funding is helping to greatly expand deployment of technologies such as solar...
More Coverage: Reuters
First Solar to start building China solar plant 2011
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - First Solar expects construction of a solar power plant in Inner Mongolia to begin next year, the China Business News reported on Tuesday, citing a...
Computer models: All-out geoengineering still would not stop sea level rise
Mimicking volcanoes by throwing particles high into the sky. Maintaining a floating armada of mirrors in space . Burning plant and other organic waste to make charcoal...
Earth's Plant Growth Fell Because of Climate Change, Study Finds
Drought linked to climate change has reversed a decades-long trend of increased global plant growth, according to a new analysis of NASA satellite data.
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BP sues Transocean for $40B; also sues maker of blowout preventer
BP on Wednesday sued the maker of the device that failed to stop last year's calamitous Gulf oil spill and the owner of the rig that exploded, alleging that...
Gulf corals in oil spill zone appear healthy
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Green groups sue BP over oil spill's effects on endangered species
Several green groups used the six-month anniversary of the BP oil spill to sue the company over the alleged effects on endangered sea turtles, manatees and other Gulf of...
Scientists: Gulf turtle rescue plan succeeds
Scientists have revealed that a mammoth effort to move thousands of turtle eggs from beaches around the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill may have saved...
White House panel: Oil companies must show ability to clean up spills
Reuters - Oil companies should be required to prove they can respond to major oil spills before they are allowed to acquire leases for offshore oil and gas development,...
Deep sea oil drilling ban rejected by European nations
OSLO, Norway - Oil-producing countries on Thursday rejected a German proposal for a moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Northeast Atlantic that reflected...
Lawsuit asks if science was manipulated in oil spill estimates
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Allen: Blown-out Gulf well to be sealed by Sunday
Admiral Thad Allen, the U.S. government's point man on the Gulf oil spill said Wednesday that BP's blown-out well is expected to be permanently sealed and...
More Coverage: Time
Halliburton: BP spill report has 'substantial' omissions, errors
Halliburton Co. is accusing BP of issuing an analysis of the causes of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that includes “a number of substantial omissions and inaccuracies.”BP’s...
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...
Oil claims process to be 'generous'
Kenneth Feinberg, the man tasked with personally administering $20 billion escrow account told reporters he plans to be more generous than the courts would be.
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