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When the Drake Oil Well in Titusville, Pennsylvania began seeping crude oil 150 years ago, humanity allowed itself to become engulfed in the ecology of oil, according to a Penn State environmental historian. Now in the midst of an energy transition, the U.S. and the world need to keep moving forward toward alternative methods of power generation. "American consumers must take stock and ... read moreUS to reconsider end to power plant CO2 checks: official 
Washington (AFP) Feb 17, 2009The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Tuesday it would "reconsider" an 11th-hour memo issued by the administration of former president George W. Bush, which said power plants could be built without checks on their carbon dioxide emissions. Issued in December by then EPA administrator Stephen Johnson, the memo said that under the Clean Air Act, the EPA did not have to take carbon ... more
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Russia, China agree multi-bln dlr oil deal: company
Moscow (AFP) Feb 17, 2009Russia and China on Tuesday agreed a 20-year deal to pump Russian oil to the energy hungry Chinese market in return for financing for Russian oil majors Transneft and Rosneft, Transneft said in a statement. "Russia will deliver to China 15 million tonnes of petrol a year over 20 years under financing conditions which suit both sides," said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, according ... more Qantas slashes China, India routes 
Melbourne (AFP) Feb 17, 2009Australian carrier Qantas announced cuts to "underperforming" routes to China and India on Tuesday, and said it was handing its domestic New Zealand services to discount offshoot Jetstar. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said the airline made the changes after closely monitoring its international operations amid turbulence created by the global economic crisis. "The Qantas Group is ... more Green tech blossoms in tough Silicon Valley climate 
San Francisco (AFP) Feb 17, 2009Firms devoted to clean energy and other "green tech" promise to revive a Silicon Valley economy sagging beneath a global financial meltdown and the US mortgage disaster, a report said Tuesday. Home foreclosures, economic instability, and year-end job losses have cast a pall over the northern California computer technology region that is home to firms such as Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook ... more  |
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Nearly 1,500 more cars in Beijing daily: state media
Beijing (AFP) Feb 17, 2009Nearly 1,500 cars a day have been added to Beijing's streets since the start of the year, state media said on Tuesday, indicating new curbs on driving had not dampened the desire for automobiles. The already gridlocked and heavily polluted Chinese capital registered 65,970 new motor vehicles in the first 45 days of the year, a daily increase of 1,466, Xinhua news agency said, quoting the ... more NLRB To Issue Nationwide Complaint Against Covanta Energy 
Braintree MA (SPX) Feb 18, 2009Utility Workers Union of America Local 369 has announced that the National Labor Relations Board has authorized a complaint charging Covanta Energy with violating federal labor law at more than 50 Covanta locations across the U.S. The complaint is based on a charge filed by the Union challenging numerous illegal work rules maintained by Covanta in its employee handbook, including rules ... more Ireland scrambles over Russian navy oil spill 
Dublin (AFP) Feb 17, 2009Irish aircraft monitoring an oil spill believed to come from a Russian navy refuelling accident off Ireland's south coast have recorded 522 tonnes of fuel spreading across the sea, officials said Tuesday. Following an overfly of the spill, Irish authorities downgraded an earlier estimate of 1,000 tonnes given by the British coastguard, and said the fuel oil was now in three distinct slicks ... more Iraq sells its uranium to Canadian company 
Baghdad (AFP) Feb 17, 2009Iraq has sold its 550 tonnes of uranium concentrate or "yellow cake", built up by former dictator Saddam Hussein, to Cameco of Canada for 90 million dollars, the government said on Tuesday. "The cabinet has today approved this sale because we have signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and we no longer need this material accumulated by the former regime," government spokesman Ali ... more |
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