PARIS (AP) — Oil giant Total has moved to reassure investors and environmental activists over the past week that the financial and environmental damage from its gas leak...
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Pew poll indicates clean energy could be a political wedge among Republicans
Energy has turned into a contentious campaign issue in 2012, pitting "drill-baby-drill" against "clean energy now," But multiple polls now make clear...
Abu Dhabi sells off 7 percent Tesla stake, makes $133 million
Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, might be working hard to ensure that the oil-producing nation becomes more environmentally friendly--but that...
Natural gas glut means drilling boom must slow
NEW YORK —The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams. So much natural gas is being produced that soon there may be nowhere left to put the country's...
Oil industry group outspending many super PACs on ads so far this year
The Washington Post has a detailed look at the powerful American Petroleum Institute (API) and Jack Gerard, the trade group’s president.The piece provides data on the...
For Japan, shutting down nuclear plants brings surge in oil, gas imports
TOKYO — To make up for its dwindling nuclear supply, Japan is on a frenzied but costly hunt for fossil fuels.As part of that hunt, tankers from as many as 12 countries are...
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Salazar: State regulation of fracking ‘not good enough for me’
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New fracking rule issued by Obama Administration
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EPA sees risks to water, workers in New York fracking rules
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