LONDON (Reuters) - Nuclear power has become hard to justify as the shale gas revolution creates an abundance of natural gas that makes it the fuel of choice to back up...
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GE CEO: Nuclear power hard to justify in cheap gas world
Articles from 7.30.2012
Markey to Geithner: Block China oil deal until royalties are paid
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) wants Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to place conditions on the Chinese oil company CNOOC Ltd.’s acquisition of a Canadian firm that...
Livestock producers petition EPA to waive corn-ethanol mandate
A group of livestock producers filed a petition Monday with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requesting a one-year waiver from a corn-ethanol rule they say is...
Articles from 7.29.2012
U.S. sets duties on Chinese, Vietnamese wind towers
Proposed U.S. tariffs on wind-energy towers from China and Vietnam were welcomed by a trade group that had complained competitors were dumping products in the American market.
Shell to scale back Arctic drilling plans
Shell is scaling back plans to drill up to five wells in Arctic waters this summer amid a series of setbacks, including stubborn sea ice clinging to Alaska's shores...
Court rejects a ban on local fracking limits
A Pennsylvania court on Thursday struck down a provision of a state law that forbade municipalities to limit where natural gas drilling can take place within their boundaries.
Schumer to Geithner: Play "hardball" on Chinese oil bid to get more US access to China's markets
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) says the U.S. should block CNOOC Ltd., a big state-owned Chinese oil company, from buying the Canadian oil company Nexen Inc. until China...
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