Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2013 - The EPA announced it reached a settlement with utility Minnesota Power on Clean Air Act violations at three of the company's coal-fired power plants.
London (UPI) Jul 17, 2013 - The outgoing executive director at Gulf Keystone Petroleum, Todd Kozel, was a visionary in his efforts in the Kurdish north of Iraq, a director said Thursday.
Denton, Texas (UPI) Jul 17, 2013 - The city of Denton could become the first in Texas to ban hydraulic fracturing outright after officials said the issue should be decided on the November ballot.
Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2013 - The row between China and Vietnam over an oil rig in contested waters highlights the need to find a solution in international law, the U.S. government said.
Brussels (UPI) Jul 17, 2013 - Some of the proposals offered to break the Russian grip on the Ukrainian energy sector are working, a top European official said Thursday in Brussels.
Vilnius (AFP) July 16, 2013 - The European Union has no plans to impose a blanket ban on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial shale gas extraction method, but it will lay out rules to address environmental concerns, a top EU official said Tuesday.
Erbil, Iraq (UPI) Jul 16, 2013 - The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq said Wednesday it was upset with arbitration statements made by Emirati energy company Dana Gas.
University Park PA (SPX) Jul 16, 2013 - Drought resistance is the key to large-scale production of Jatropha, a potential biofuel plant - and an international group of scientists has identified the first step toward engineering a hardier v
Edinburgh, Scotland (SPX) Jul 16, 2013 - The best way to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change is through the use of market forces, according to a new study. Researchers who monitored the effectiveness of the European Climate E
Upton NY (SPX) Jul 16, 2013 - In the search for understanding how some magnetic materials can be transformed to carry electric current with no energy loss, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Labora
Yonkers, N.Y. (UPI) Jul 16, 2013 - The latest generation of processors from U.S. chip giant Intel are performing as expected, especially in providing laptops with longer battery life, tests show.
Bismarck, N.D. (UPI) Jul 16, 2013 - More federal drug enforcement agents are needed in western North Dakota, the heart of the state's oil boom, Sen. John Hoeven said.
London (UPI) Jul 16, 2013 - The British government said Wednesday it signed off on plans to build the 700 megawatt Rampion wind farm off the coast of Sussex.
Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autonoma De Buenos Aires (AFP) July 16, 2013 - Chevron and Argentina's state oil giant YPF signed a $1.2 billion agreement on Tuesday to exploit a huge oil reserve, triggering protests over the fracking it will entail.
Houston (UPI) Jul 16, 2013 - A discovery in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico is the first for a partnership that includes a spinoff of China's state oil company, Shell announced.
Washington (UPI) Jul 16, 2013 - The U.S. Energy Department said it was spending $6.3 million on research aimed at generating a biofuel that could be cost competitive by 2017.
