WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is rescinding its decision to expand offshore oil exploration into the eastern Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic Coast because of...
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Pike: Market for smart grid data tools and services to hit $4.2 billion by 2015 (from $365 million today)
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House climate committee to be axed
The House Democrats’ prized global warming committee died quietly on Wednesday. It was four years old.
Senior Republican blasts Interior push for gas ‘fracking’ disclosure
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EPA confirms tiny cellulosic biofuels mandate for 2011
In Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized the 2011 percentage standards for the four fuels categories under the agency's Renewable Fuel...
Don't consign us to history, plead island states at Cancún
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GAO: Lost natural gas costs government $23 million per year
The government is losing tens of millions of dollars in potential royalties from energy companies that let immense volumes of natural gas escape into the atmosphere,...
GM hiring to push electric effort beyond Volt
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Joint initiative by Japanese & Algerian universities aims to produce 50% of humanity's energy by 2050—in the Sahara
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