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The Energy Daily Editorial Team produces Energy Daily's coverage of the global energy industry. We report on oil and gas, power grids and utilities, energy markets and policy, and the renewables and storage reshaping how the world is powered. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Energy Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Top Multinationals Pledge To Cut Carbon Pollution

Paris (AFP) Feb 01, 2007 - Some of the very corporations once vilified by environmentalists promised on Thursday to reduce by 10 million tons annually their collective output of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, the World Wildlife Fund announced. Sony, Nike, IMB, Polaroid, building-materials giant Lafarge and seven other top multinationals said they would fulfill their carbon pledge by no later than 2010.

Feb 1, 2007

Its Lights Out For Edison In California

Los Angeles (AFP) Jan 31, 2007 - Traditional light bulbs could be outlawed in California if groundbreaking environmental legislation being proposed by a state legislator is approved. Democratic politician Lloyd Levine said his bill -- the How Many Legislators Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb Act -- would ban the sales of cheaper incandescent bulbs in favour of compact energy-efficient lamps.

Jan 31, 2007

Self-Imposed Tax For Guilt-Ridden Polluters

Paris (AFP) Jan 31, 2007 - Hunting for a present for a pair of environmentally-sensitive newlyweds? Try this: a just married voucher worth 180 euros (234 dollars)... in carbon offsets. Smaller than a toaster but more meaningful, this piece of paper will compensate for nine tonnes of perilous, climate-damaging carbon dioxide (CO2). That is the amount of pollution that bride and groom are likely to generate by staging a wedding party with 150 guests and by taking a long-haul return flight for their honeymoon.

Jan 31, 2007

US To Send Clean Energy Mission To China And India

Washington DC (AFP) Jan 29, 2007 - The United States is to send a mission to China and India to market technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the world's two most populous nations, the US Commerce Department said Monday. The clean-energy technologies trade mission in April will be lead by US Commerce Assistant Secretary David Bohigian and involve a broad range of technologies such as renewable energy, energy efficiency and clean coal.

Jan 29, 2007

A Boost For Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research

Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2007 - The development of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles, the ultimate green dream in transportation energy, is another step closer. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) have identified a new variation of a familiar platinum-nickel alloy that is far and away the most active oxygen-reducing catalyst ever reported.

Jan 26, 2007

Heat Mining All The Rage As Next US Energy Source

Boston MA (SPX) Jan 26, 2007 - A comprehensive new MIT-led study of the potential for geothermal energy within the United States has found that mining the huge amounts of heat that reside as stored thermal energy in the Earth's hard rock crust could supply a substantial portion of the electricity the United States will need in the future, probably at competitive prices and with minimal environmental impact.

Jan 26, 2007

Iowa State Corn Soy Plastics To Be Made Into Hog Feeders

Ames IO (SPX) Jan 26, 2007 - Richard Larock sorted through a pile of neatly labeled baggies filled with the plastics he makes from corn, soybean and other bio-based oils. Larock, a University Professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, found the thin, square piece he was looking for and smacked it against his hand. This one is made from soybean oil reinforced with glass fibers, he said.

Jan 26, 2007

Crude Prices Retreat Amid Rising US Reserves

New York (AFP) Jan 25, 2007 - Global oil prices skidded lower Thursday despite colder US winter weather as the market focused on rising energy reserves in the United States, analysts said. New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in March, slumped 1.14 dollars to close at 54.23 dollars a barrel. In London, the price of Brent North Sea crude for March delivery slid 1.31 dollars to settle at 54.12 dollars a barrel.

Jan 25, 2007

Portugal Wants Renewables To Meet Nearly Half Of Its Electricity Needs

Lisbon (AFP) Jan 24, 2007 - Portugal wants renewable energy sources like wind and wave power to account for nearly half of the electricity consumed in the country by 2010, Prime Minister Jose Socrates said Wednesday. The Socialist government will work to ensure that 45 percent of the nation's electricity output in three years comes from renewable sources, he said during a debate in parliament, up from a previous target of 39 percent.

Jan 24, 2007

A Daily Snapshot Of Carbon Usage In Figures

Paris (AFP) Jan 23, 2007 - Greenhouse-gas pollution, the driver for dangerous global warming, is all around us -- and almost as invisible are the huge disparities in individual emissions around the world and carbon cost of the things we buy. For instance, the average American, whose lifestyle is based on profligate burning of oil, gas and coal, causes nearly 10 times more carbon pollution than the average Kenyan.

Jan 23, 2007

BOC Gases Begins Supplying Hydrogen To Valero Refinery In Ohio

Murray Hill NJ (SPX) Jan 23, 2007 - BOC Gases has begun supplying hydrogen for cleaner fuel production from its newest hydrogen plant in Lima, Ohio. The plant, which is capable of producing over 20 million standard cubic feet a day of hydrogen, began operating this fall, supplying Valero's 170,000 barrel-a-day Lima oil refinery with hydrogen for use in a new diesel hydrotreating unit.

Jan 23, 2007

B-52 Undergoes Synthetic-Fuel Cold Weather Testing At Minot

Minot AFB (SPX) Jan 23, 2007 - A B-52 Stratofortess powered by a mix of synthetic fuel arrived here Jan. 17 for cold-weather testing, the last step in the testing and certification process to help reduce Air Force dependence on imported fuel. The aircraft, permanently assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing here, will undergo ground testing today through the beginning of February to determine how well the synthetic fuel, made from a 50-50 blend of traditional crude oil-based fuel and a Fischer-Tropsch fuel derived from natural gas, performs in extreme weather conditions.

Jan 23, 2007

Bush The Greenie

Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2007 - The annual State of the Union speech is the classic example of the bully pulpit reserved for the president of the United States. In 1995, President Bill Clinton showed how it could be used to recapture the initiative after a stunning defeat in Congressional elections and President George W. Bush must hope to do the same this week.

Jan 23, 2007

Ecotality To Accelerate Its New Hydrogen Programs

Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Jan 23, 2007 - Ecotality has announced that it has engaged Airboss Aerospace to act as consulting engineers on its Hydratus bus. Airboss will work in conjunction with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL) and the California Institute of Technology to continue the development of the Hydratus, a system that generates hydrogen on demand.

Jan 23, 2007

Embattled Bush Launches Greenhouse Gas Crusade

Washington (AFP) Jan 23, 2007 - US President George W. Bush will call Tuesday for a 20 percent cut in gasoline use over 10 years and curbs on dangerous emissions, in a State of the Union address aimed at rescuing his presidency from the tumult of the Iraq war. Under fire from rival Democrats and even fellow Republicans, Bush will lay out a plethora of domestic policy programs, striving to escape the shadow of a conflict which has killed more than 3,000 US soldiers and threatens his legacy.

Jan 23, 2007

H2Gen Provides Hydrogen Generator For Orlando Energy Station

Alexandria VA (SPX) Jan 23, 2007 - H2Gen Innovations has announced that it has delivered its factory-tested HGM 2000 hydrogen generation system to Chevron Hydrogen Company, for use in Chevron's hydrogen energy station being constructed near the Orlando, Florida airport. The fueling station at Orlando, funded in part by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, is expected to be operational by early 2007 and will support hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engine powered buses that will be used at the airport.

Jan 23, 2007