Porsche is banking on the efficiency of hybrid drive models to reduce its overall fleet emissions. In fact, the company's development chief, Wolfgang Duerheimer, is...
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Nebraska Senator asks State Department to reroute oil sands pipeline
WASHINGTON—Concern that a proposed oil pipeline could irreversibly damage his home state’s aquifer and most fragile landscape has prompted Nebraska’s junior senator to ask...
Hoaxers target new Chevron advertising campaign
Reuters - Chevron Corp launched a new advertising campaign on Monday to address negative perceptions of big oil companies, but a bogus release and website by activist...
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Colorado gets massive wind turbine plant
Manufacturing giant wind turbines sure can take up a lot of ground. The city of Pueblo, Colorado now can witness exactly how much as Vestas, a developer of wind turbine...
Sec. of Commerce Locke: Government 'moving fast' on smart grid technology
"Smart grid" technology can help homeowners cut up to 20 percent of the energy they consume. So what's the delay? Commerce Sec. Gary Locke says the industry...
Western oil-and-gas drillers launch legal assault on Interior
Oil-and-gas companies active in Western states have filed litigation that alleges Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is blocking energy exploration on federal lands.A trade...
Britain tidal power plan put on hold in statement on energy policy
Chris Huhne, the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, delivered a major energy policy statement today that endorsed nuclear power,...
China denies giving unfair clean-energy subsidies
A senior Chinese official rejected a U.S. trade complaint about Beijing's clean-energy policy and said Sunday that Washington might be improperly supporting its own...
NYT Editorial Board slams Senate GOP candidates on climate
The New York Times editorial board came out swinging in a Sunday editorial on climate change, slamming Republican Senate candidates for questioning whether climate change...
Hydrogen Highway one station closer to reality
A SunHydro hydrogen fueling station has opened in the parking lot of Proton Energy Systems in Wallingford, CT, the first in a network of hydrogen stations that...
Coast Gaurd admiral tells AP of need for bigger US presence in Arctic
AP - The ice-choked reaches of the northern Arctic Ocean aren't widely perceived as an international shipping route. But global warming is bringing vast change, and...
China aims to cut energy intensity 17.3% by 2015
BEIJING (Reuters) - China, the world's top energy consumer, will cut the energy used for each dollar of economic output by 17.3 percent from 2011 to 2015, compared...
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