The State Department assigned an important environmental impact study of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to a company with financial ties to the pipeline operator,...
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Pike Research: Fuel cell vehicle sales to cross the 1M mark in 2020
The fuel cell vehicle (FCV) market is now in the ramp-up phase to commercialization, anticipated by automakers to happen around 2015. According to a new report from Pike...
Czechs bet heavily on nuclear power
DUKOVANY NUCLEAR PLANT, Czech Republic -- Surrounded by corn fields, bicycle routes and a nature reserve, the eight huge cooling towers of the Dukovany nuclear...
Emails raise fresh questions on Solyndra loan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Obama administration appointee at the Energy Department pressed White House analysts to sign off on a $535 million loan to Solyndra even though...
In Iowa, ethanol still has power to slip up a candidate
Even in Iowa, King Corn is not all that it used to be. But can it still make a presidential candidate waffle?
Court rules in favor of European Union emissions trading
A court has ruled in favor of a European Union plan that would require airlines operating in its countries to trade emissions, a proposal that has drawn the ire of...
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A liberal watchdog group says the State Department’s inspector general (IG) is probing possible conflicts of interest in the federal environmental review of the proposed...
Exxon CEO: 'Political calculations' halted Keystone pipeline
Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson said Friday that politics have thwarted the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would bring oil-sands crude from Canada to Gulf Coast...
GOP makes it official: No Kochs at Keystone hearing
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans are again rebuffing Democratic attempts to bring the billionaire Koch brothers into hearings on the Keystone XL oil sands...
State Dept IG reviewing Keystone XL assessment
WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The State Department's Inspector General is initiating a "special review" of the agency's environmental assessment of the...
Clinton: Keystone pipeline review is fair
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is defending the State Department’s review of the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline against green group allegations that...
U.S. State Department offers key support to Keystone XL pipeline
A State Department report found sufficient environmental safeguards to proceed with a project to carry oil to Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast.
House passes bill to force Obama decision on Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas pipeline
House Republicans approved legislation Monday to force the Obama administration to make a decision in the coming months on a controversial proposed pipeline project that...
House panel moves to force White House oil pipeline decision
Republicans on a panel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved legislation Wednesday that would require the Obama administration to make a decision on a...
Scientific panel finds regulation is deficient in Canada oil sands
Reuters - Reclamation in Canada's oil sands is not keeping pace with rapid development and that could leave the public vulnerable to major financial burdens in years...
Backers rev up oil sands campaign
Haven’t heard of the Keystone XL pipeline project yet? That’s about to change.Environmental groups and the oil lobby are preparing for battle in coming months to determine...
Clinton facing heat on oil sands pipeline
Battle lines have been hardening over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline over the last couple of weeks. The pipeline, which will stretch from Alberta in Canada to...
New oil sands legislation would strip clause from 2007 Energy Act
Environmentalists are bracing for a renewed fight with lawmakers and the petroleum industry over whether the U.S. military should be allowed to meet its massive fuel...
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