The Energy Department has offered a Texas company a loan guarantee for a $1 billion project to build four small factories that would turn wood chips into an oil...
Articles from 2.4.2011
Rockefeller tells coal industry to devise solutions or get 'left behind'
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) warned the coal industry Friday that it must work to find solutions to the many problems facing the fossil fuel or risk being “left...
Buyers wary as theft-hit EU spot carbon market reopens
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union's spot carbon market opened on Friday after cyber attacks forced a closure lasting more than two weeks, but was quiet as some...
Shell: No Beaufort Sea drilling in Arctic for 2011
AP - Shell Alaska has dropped plans to drill in the Arctic waters of the Beaufort Sea this year and will concentrate on obtaining permits for the 2012 season, company Vice...
DOE Inspector General: America's power grid too vulnerable to cyberattack
America's power grid remains vulnerable to cyberattack, a result of sluggish implementation of weak computer security standards and insufficient federal oversight,...
Wolverines threatened by climate change, concludes new study from NCAR scientist
Wolverines in the continental United States could be wiped out by the end of the century if temperatures continue to rise, according to a new study from a scientist at the...
Science accounts hit hard by planned House budget cuts
Thursday, House of Representatives Republicans unveiled a long-awaited plan to reduce federal spending this year that includes double-digit cuts in the panels that fund...
Amazon drought caused huge carbon emissions, concludes new study
Reuters - A widespread drought in the Amazon rain forest last year was worse than the "once-in-a-century" dry spell in 2005 and may have a bigger impact on...
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