Shanghai (AFP) Aug 29, 2013 - China's environment ministry has suspended approvals of new projects by the country's two biggest oil firms for failing to achieve pollution reduction goals, it said Thursday.
Rennes, France (AFP) Aug 29, 2013 - A French court has ruled against a decision to set up a wind farm off the picturesque northern abbey island of Mont Saint Michel which could threaten the site's UNESCO World Heritage status, a lawyer said Thursday.
Dublin, Ireland (UPI) Aug 29, 2013 - Ireland's state-owned grid operator says a developer's charges it is intentionally delaying a new $400 million power plant are unfounded.
Oslo, Norway (UPI) Aug 29, 2013 - A new poll finds more than two-thirds of Norwegians opposed to the country's membership in the European Union.
Paris (AFP) Aug 28, 2013 - China will add some 1,500 gigawatts of power production capacity by 2030, or the equivalent of Britain's existing capacity every year, a study showed on Wednesday.
Beijing (UPI) Aug 28, 2013 - A new Greenpeace report warns that pollution from new coal-fired plants planned in China's Guangdong province would cause 16,000 premature deaths in the province and adjacent Hong Kong over the next 40 years.
Doha (AFP) Aug 28, 2013 - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussed strengthening cooperation with gas-rich Qatar as he met emir Sheikh Tamim al-Thani in Doha on Wednesday as part of a regional tour.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2013 - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) analyzed more than 50,000 home sales near 67 wind facilities in 27 counties across nine U.S. states, yet was unable to uncover any impacts to nea
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 28, 2013 - According to the latest issue of the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) Electric Power Monthly, with preliminary data through to June 30, 2013, renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass,
Shanghai (AFP) Aug 27, 2013 - Three executives of the listed arm of China's biggest oil producer are being investigated for violations of discipline, the government said Tuesday, a phrase which typically refers to corruption.
Ithaca, N.Y. (UPI) Aug 26, 2013 - Saskatchewan scientists say they have sequenced the camelina sativa genome, an important step in the development of sustainable biofuels.
Moscow (AFP) Aug 26, 2013 - A Greenpeace icebreaker protesting oil prospecting in the Arctic said it would leave after Russia threatened to use force against the Dutch-flagged vessel including firing on it, the group said Monday.
New Delhi (UPI) Aug 26, 2013 - Petronet says its new import terminal in India for liquefied natural gas has received its first shipment of about 123,000 cubic meters of LNG from Qatar.
Caracas, Distrito Capital (AFP) Aug 26, 2013 - A Russian navy fleet led by the Moskva missile cruiser docked Monday in Venezuela as part of a friendly visit to various Latin American countries, the Venezuelan military said.
The Hague (AFP) Aug 25, 2013 - The Netherlands on Sunday said Greenpeace's right to peaceful protest was indisputable after the environmental group defied Russian authorities by deploying an icebreaker through an Arctic shipping route without permission.
Moscow (AFP) Aug 24, 2013 - Greenpeace defied Russian authorities Saturday by deploying an icebreaker through an Arctic shipping route without permission to protest against oil drilling.
