Manila (AFP) Jan 30, 2008 - The Philippine government should seriously consider other sources of energy such as nuclear, solar and geothermal rather than rely on oil, an energy summit in Manila was told Wednesday.
The Dalles, Ore. (UPI) Jan 29, 2008 - For a climate-change conference, last month's U.N. meeting in Bali, Indonesia, was as uncontroversial as they come.
Amherst, Mass. (UPI) Jan 29, 2008 - U.S. scientists said deposits of natural gas created by bacteria during the last ice age might lead to technology making natural gas a renewal resource.
Beijing (AFP) Jan 29, 2008 - China has boosted the amount of coal transported by rail to its power stations to a record high as it battles a power crunch, state media reported Tuesday.
Bangalore, India (AFP) Jan 29, 2008 - Indian wind power firm Suzlon Energy posted a 92 percent jump in third-quarter net profit Tuesday as it won more orders amid worldwide concern about climate change.
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 29, 2008 - ExxonMobil Chemical has announced that its new battery film technology will be an integral part of Electrovaya's new all electric vehicles. ExxonMobil's battery separator films significantly enhance the power, safety and reliability of lithium-ion batteries, thereby helping speed the adoption of these smaller and lighter batteries into the next wave of lower-emission vehicles.
New York NY (SPX) Jan 29, 2008 - Gushan Environmental Energy Limited, China's largest producer of biodiesel as measured by annual production capacity, announced that its Beijing plant has commenced production, adding 50,000 tons to the company's annual biodiesel production capacity. Annual capacity of the Beijing plant is expected to increase to 100,000 tons in the fourth quarter of 2008 when additional expansion is completed.
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 29, 2008 - Japan should look at cutting greenhouse emissions by even more than the 50 percent by 2050 sought by the last Group of Eight summit, the environment minister said Tuesday.
Nottingham, UK (SPX) Jan 29, 2008 - The first of six properties designed to show case state-of-the-art energy efficient housing will be officially opened on Wednesday January 30 2008 at The University of Nottingham. The house built by BASF, a major supplier of raw materials to the construction industry, is part of the Creative Energy Homes Project on University Park. The project was set up by the School of Built Environment to stimulate sustainable design ideas and promote new ways of providing affordable, environmentally sustainable housing.
Washington (AFP) Jan 28, 2008 - US President George W. Bush called Monday for completing an international deal aimed at cutting global-warming greenhouse gases that involves every major economy and gives none a free ride.
Washington (UPI) Jan 28, 2008 - An $89,000 carbon offset program initiated in the U.S. House of Representatives stirred debate over the controversial green initiative, officials said.
Hastings-On-Hudson, N.Y. (UPI) Jan 28, 2008 - As ExxonMobil prepares to celebrate what could be a record profit of more than $10 billion for the last quarter of 2007, jubilant company officials and stockholders might want to join in a moment of silence for the more than 1 million war dead in Iraq -- Iraqi and American combined. They paid the ultimate price in a war in which ExxonMobil has had a hand and which we can estimate is responsible for at least $2.5 billion of ExxonMobil's latest profit. (Nick Mottern is the director of ConsumersforPeace.org and has worked as a reporter for the Providence (R.I.) Journal and Evening Bulletin and the former newsletter Consumer News; as a researcher and writer for the former Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs; as a lobbyist for Bread for the World; as a writer and organizer for Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers; and as an organizer in New York's Hudson Valley. He is a member of the board of Traprock Peace Center in Greenfield, Mass.)
Washington (UPI) Jan 28, 2008 - It is ironic that Europe, which likes to think of itself as the center of environmental correctness and the green revolution, should now be the scene of a sharp political struggle over its ambitious emissions targets. Indeed, few EU proposals have aroused quite such a chorus of complaint and derision.
New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Jan 25, 2008 - There are more than 6,000 refuse trucks serving New Jersey's cities and towns. These trucks are among the heaviest diesel fuel users and most concentrated sources of air pollution in the state's urban centers. While diesel trucks can reduce their emissions by addition of pollution control devices, when it is time to replace them, buying new trucks powered by alternative fuels - particularly natural gas -- offers a major opportunity to reduce New Jersey's risky dependence on foreign oil, to reduce its greenhouse gases and to help bring healthier air to millions of New Jersey residents.
Beijing (AFP) Jan 25, 2008 - China's new energy law has been held back by bureaucratic infighting and is unlikely to be ready in time for the annual session of the national parliament in March, state media reported Friday.
Washington (UPI) Jan 25, 2008 - In a nervous world facing triple-digit prices per barrel of oil and peering nervously into the abyss of recession, energy projects recently written off as untenable have, like Dracula, risen from the grave. What is most extraordinary about the energy feeding frenzy is how ideology is taking an increasing back seat to pragmatic concerns about securing long-range energy supplies. Given Western Europe's growing anxieties about being increasingly beholden to Russia's energy exports, a most unlikely champion of shivering Europeans has arisen -- the mullahs of Tehran. And their weapon of choice? The Nabucco pipeline project, which earlier this week was declared by many analysts as dead and buried after Russia signed a long-term pipeline project with Bulgaria.
