NEW ORLEANS — Oil has stopped spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, but BP remains unusually vulnerable to the prospect of U.S. gas stations defecting to other brands. In...
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Paris, Mexico City, Amsterdam, Zagreb pledge to cut carbon emissions 10% by next year's 10:10
Mexico City's taxis and Paris's city halls are about to become greener after four worldwide capitals signed up to the 10:10 climate campaign. The mayors of...
Government to conduct surprise oil rig inspections
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...
Gates agriculture grants focus on seeds, climate
Reuters - Gates Foundation, which has donated $1.5 billion to agriculture in developing countries, is focusing more investments on seeds and technology to help small...
First Solar to double capacity to 2.7 GW with new plants, expansion
First Solar said today that it will build new plants for producing cadmium telluride solar modules in the U.S. and Vietnam that should become operational in 2012. The two...
More Coverage: Venture Beat
League of Conservation Voters targets Prop 23
The League of Conservation Voters today added California's Proposition 23 to its 'Dirty Dozen' list, the first time a the environmental group has placed a...
Feds tackle thorny smart grid issues of privacy and communications infrastructure in new reports
The smart grid is here already in many towns. Along with energy savings, does it mean the end of privacy? And will there even be enough bandwidth to handle a big jump in...
Fuel cell start-up Bloom Energy poised to produce one box a day
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley start-up Bloom Energy, which makes fuel cell boxes that can power buildings, expects to be producing one of its boxes per day in...
Enterprise to rent Coda electric cars
Enterprise Rent-A-Car said Wednesday it will put 100 Coda electric sedans into its fleet next year, complementing the 500 Nissan Leaf electric cars the company already has...
Toyota to pay Tesla $60 million to electrify RAV4
Tesla has entered into a $60 million agreement to develop a powertrain system for the electrified Toyota RAV4, which is slated to go on sale in 2012. The agreement,...
African leaders urged to tackle climate change
AFP - African leaders came under pressure on Wednesday to take concrete actions against global warming at the African Development Forum in the Ethiopian capital,...
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AP - Engineers say they have to finish one more pressure test to ensure the cement seal on BP's blown-out well will hold.
More Coverage: Reuters
Busted well to be 'completely sealed' by Saturday: BP
AFP - BP plans to put a death choke on its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well Saturday, permanently sealing the well and capping a months-long effort to end the worst maritime...
More Coverage: Reuters
Obama Admin Report: Minimal impacts from drilling moratorium
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...
More Coverage: The Hill's E2 Wire
NIH to use BP cash to study spill health effects
Reuters - The U.S. National Institutes of Health said on Tuesday it would use $10 million from BP to start a multiyear study to look at the potential health effects from...
BP: Spill costs have hit $8 billion
Reuters - BP Plc said the cost of dealing with its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had risen to $8 billion as the oil giant prepared to release the findings of an internal...
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