Oil & Gas
Will Oil Price Decline Affect Green Movement?
As the price of oil drops below $70 a barrel from its peak around $140 in July, American energy consumers may be going back to their old ways. In October, New Energy Finance ...
Drop In Oil Prices Dulls Enthusiasm For Renewable Energy
As oil prices soared, investors looked into renewable energy. But now that oil prices have dropped below $70 a barrel, from $147 in July, the key rationale for investors to pump cash ...
Chevron Launches ‘I Will’ Campaign
Chevron Corp, launched a U.S.-based marketing campaign called “I Will” over the weekend. The campaign is designed to raise awareness of the importance of energy efficiency and conservation. The advertisements accompany Chevron's ...
Shell Criticized for Manipulating Environmental Audit Report
Shell is accused of manipulating an independent environmental audit by AEA Technology to determine whether an oil and gas project would receive bank funding, Guardian reports. Dozens of e-mails secured through the ...
ExxonMobil Says New Tire Material Increases Fuel Efficiency
ExxonMobil Chemical announced the completion of a manufacturing facility at its existing site in Pensacola, Fla. The facility will provide new capacity for the production of a new tire material technology, ...
Harrington Dumps Sunoco Stocks for Lack of Sustainability
Harrington Investments says it is divesting of Sunoco Corporation stocks after several years of unproductive engagement with the company to improve corporate governance and issues relating to sustainability, News Blaze ...
ASA: Shell Environmental Claims Violate Advertising Rules
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell violated advertising rules by claiming in a newspaper ad that two oil projects in Canada and the U.S. involved sustainable ...
High Gas Prices Force 94% of Consumers to Change Lifestyles
Higher-than-ever gas prices have caused 94% of Americans to make lifestyle changes to control costs, according to a recent MapQuest survey (via MarketingCharts). This includes more than 80% of consumers ...
Oakland International Purchases CNG-Powered Shuttle Buses
Oakland International Airport is getting 26 new CNG-powered buses that will be deployed in 2009, replacing older diesel-powered models. Six of the new CNG buses will be assigned to AirBART service. The ...
Offshore Drilling, What it Really Means
President Bush caused a stir when he lifted the ban on offshore oil drilling Monday, Keith Johnson of the Wall Street Journal writes. Johnson says the announcement lends itself to two readings. On one hand ...
YRC’s Bill Zollars Talks Up Green Fleets
Bill Zollars, head of transportation company YRC Worldwide, says calls to return to a 55 mph national truck speed limit are off base because today's trucks are most fuel efficient between 63 ...
Vancouverites Begin Paying Carbon Tax
Drivers in Vancouver have begun paying more for gasoline as a result of the provincial government's carbon tax on all fossil fuels -- including gasoline, diesel, natural gas and home heating ...
More Big Rigs Cut Emissions, Achieve SmartWay Certification
International's LoneStar truck has received the U.S. EPA's SmartWay certification for its fuel efficiency and emissions reductions, and is the first "classic-styled Class 8" truck to do so, the company announced. The ...
California Unveils Ambitious Emissions Plan – 30% Cut By 2020
California's Air Resources Board has released a draft plan to reduce California's greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent over the next 12 years. The ARB says that the recommended reduction ...
EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
If current laws and policies remain the same, world energy consumption is projected to grow by 50 percent by 2030, according to U.S. government energy statistics released in "International Energy Outlook 2008" by the ...
Con Ed Using More Biofuel, Hybrids
Con Edison is increasing the use of biodiesel fuel in its truck fleet and is replacing 50 of its smaller vehicles with hybrids in 2008, the company announced. The company says using ...
Dow Raising Prices, Again
Dow Chemical says it is raising the prices of its products in July even more than the increases it announced in May -- by as much as an additional 25 ...
High Energy Prices May Give Green Products Edge
More companies are cashing in on the difference in price between products made with recycled materials and those made with more fossil fuel content, The Wall Street Journal reports. When there is ...
James Hansen: Try Fossil Fuel CEOs For ‘High Crimes Against Humanity’
James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, told the House Select Committee On Energy Independence And Global Warming that he is 99-percent certain that the concentration of CO2 in the ...
EPA Could Set Emissions Limits On Transportation Fuels
The U.S. EPA may set limits on GHG emissions associated with gasoline and other transportation fuels, The Wall Street Journal reports. A 2007 Supreme Court ruling said greenhouse gases could be ...
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miggs on European Paper Industry Cuts CO2 Emissions by 42% since 1990
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peter in ireland on Ontario May Follow California’s Lead on TV Energy Efficiency
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Environmental Leader on S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks
"The survey respondents (the PDF report mentions 4,000 respondents in 38..."
Jake on UPS Trying New Hydraulic Hybrid Trucks
"A point of clarification: the Reuters press release referenced herein reports that 20 UPS will purchase..."