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- Researchers: Renewable Energy Jobs Are Safer
- The push for renewable energies has one more feather to put in its cap: improved health for its workforce and the potential of evading death, at least while on the job. As more workers shift from fossil fuel-related jobs to those in renewable energy, their health should improve, according...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Week in Oil & Gas: G20 Axes Subsidies, Obama-Hu Climate Rhetoric, and Chevron Sues
- The week ended with a muffled bang as the Group of 20 nations agreed to phase out government subsidies for fossil fuels. Ending fossil fuel subsidies would have an impact -- positive or negative, depending on whose talking.  But the agreement is viewed largely symbolic since G20 leaders did...
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Sue Big Oil Over Global Warming? Court Tells Katrina Victims, Yes You Can!
- Landowners along the Mississippi Gulf Coast are blaming a mishmosh of oil, coal and chemical companies for property damage caused by Hurricane Katrina as a result of global warming. Yes, that's right, the specter of global warming lawsuits has come to call and thanks to a recent federal appeals ruling, the plaintiffs...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Fossil Fuel Resource Leader? U.S. is No. 1 in World, Thanks to Coal
- The U.S. has the most fossil fuel resources in the world. More than Saudi Arabia. More than Canada, Iran and even Russia, which is nibbling at U.S. heels. The United States' fossil fuel reserves -- that's oil, natural gas and coal -- come in at 969.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent BOE,...
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
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- Week in Oil & Gas: Punting in Copenhagen and Gulf of Mexico Leases -- Abridged
- The odds Congress would be able to pass climate-change legislation this year dimmed by the minute last week, as the political wrangling moved to the Senate Finance Committee and the debate focused once again on jobs and the economy. The bill's molasses-like progress through the Senate has rippled through the...
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Deutsche Bank's Carbon Counter and the Business of Greenhouse Gases
- Deutsche Bank's ginormous "Carbon Counter" -- unveiled Thursday in New York City -- is the type of in-your-face campaign passers-by will find nearly impossible to ignore. The towering electronic billboard -- with its 13-number red digital display and 'Climate Change Affects Everyone' message perched on top --...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- POET to Use Corn Cobs - Not Natural Gas - to Power Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
- POET has figured out what the rest of the corn-based ethanol industry has failed to grasp: relying on price-volatile fossil fuels to power its plants is bad for business. POET announced Wednesday it will use corn cobs -- specifically the liquid waste created in the cob-to-fuel conversion process -- to power its...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Exxon Dips Toe in Electric Car Market
- ExxonMobil generally doesn't evoke the kind of "green" images typically associated with the electric car industry. It is afterall, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, and a conservative one at that. The energy giant tends to stick with what it's good at: making money finding, producing and selling fossil...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- IEA Shoutout: Nukes, Renewables, Energy Efficiency Key to Climate Change Battle
- The world -- in the eyes of the International Energy Agency -- cannot resume its trip down the same fossil fuel path. Instead, the Paris-based agency, which released Tuesday its 2009 World Energy Outlook, called for a profound change within the energy sector and a global agreement to limit...
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Virent Energy, Shell Poised for Second-Gen Biofuels Race
- Now that the dust kicked up over the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules for the biofuels industry has settled just a little bit, it's worth taking a look at Virent Energy Systems and Royal Dutch Shell, companies well-positioned in the advanced biofuels race. The EPA released this week its draft regulations requiring biofuels to...
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Recession Takes a Bite Out of U.S. GHG Emissions
- The 2008 greenhouse gas emissions report from the Energy Department provides further fodder to the power of a recession. Total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2008 fell by 2.2 percent from 2007 to 7.053 billion metric tons, according to a U.S. Energy Information Administration report released Thursday afternoon. That's a remarkable change from...
- Blog posts 2009-12-03
- BP Ponies Up $10M For Algae Biofuels in Martek Deal
- BP is ponying up $10 million for a partnership with Martek Biosciences to study the use of algae to convert sugar into biodiesel. BP isn't the only oil major -- or government agency -- to show an interest in the prospect of commercially viable algal-based fuels. Just last month ExxonMobil committed $600 million...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Green Shoots Hint at Recovery of Renewable Energy Investment
- Investment in the global renewable energy industry slowed considerably in 2008 and went into a freefall in the first quarter of 2009. But a recent study by New Energy Finance reveals a few green shoots of recovery have begun to appear. The 2009 Global Trends in Sustainable...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
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