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- The fall of the Soviet Union created the largest ever human-made carbon sink – abandoned farmland.
- The US is overtaking Russia as the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas, a startling shift that is reshaping markets and eroding the clout of traditional energy-rich nations.
- Enbridge Inc. wants to build a $1-billion pipeline to the oil sands designed to carry diluent – a product needed to facilitate expansion efforts for energy projects in northern Alberta.
- Promoters of a giant coal export terminal have given $40,000 to the Washington Republican Party, money that a Western Washington University professor suspects are being funneled into campaigns of sympathetic but officially “non-partisan” Whatcom...
- Overfishing and pollution are part of the problem, scientists say, warning that mass extinction of species may be inevitable.
- Extending a tax credit for new wind farms would cost billions of dollars over the next decade, according to congressional analysis obtained by The Hill.
- Mention of ‘geoengineering’ in the IPCC report summary was brief, but it suggests that the controversial area is now firmly on the scientific agenda.
- Tesla stock falls 6 percent after Internet video captures Model S in flames. Tesla says a large metallic object hit a battery pack, causing a fire that firefighters struggled to put out.
- The oil industry’s campaign against an eight-year-old renewable fuel mandate is paying off, according to a new poll that shows American motorists are concerned corn-based biofuels could hurt their cars.
- When the Chinese government recently folded to public outrage over Beijing's record-breaking levels of smog, some thought it could signal a forceful shift to clean energy in the country. Instead, it looks like it might do the opposite.
- Efforts to create a national carbon market in the US to cut greenhouse gas emissions may be deader than bipartisanship in Washington. But California today took another step to globalize its cap-and-trade program by signing an agreement with the...
- Plenty is not normally a problem for those who harvest the seas; decks and holds full of fish generally gladden the hearts of fishermen everywhere. But for the lobstermen of the US state of Maine, the abundance of lobsters has turned into a headache.
- Defying complaints from international human rights and environmental organizations, as well as the apparent wishes of President Vladimir V. Putin, Russian prosecutors brought piracy charges on Wednesday against 13 Greenpeace activists and a...
- The U.S. Supreme Court took no action on Tuesday on petitions that could have it undertake a potentially wide-ranging legal review of the Obama administration's first wave of regulations aimed at battling climate change.
- Tom Steyer, the hedge fund billionaire-turned-climate activist has a knack for picking projects that keep him in the public eye. Now he has teamed with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on a typically ambitious effort – counting up the economic costs...
- Conspiracy theorists are likely also to question climate change, vaccines and GMOs.
- PARIS (Reuters) - GDF Suez has appealed a provisional court order to remove 10 onshore wind turbines after a couple who own a nearby castle sued for noise and light pollution, paving the way for lawsuits which may hamper France's efforts to promote...
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- TransCanada expects to complete testing on the southern portion of its Keystone XL pipeline in early November, the company sa -More-
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