Industry Strives for Cleaner Oil From Oil Sands
Extracting oil from oil sands is a messy business, but the industry is working on new techniques that are less destructive to forests and emit far fewer greenhouse gases.
View ArticleAverting a North Sea Blowout
As BP struggles to control oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from a blowout at the Deepwater Horizon rig a month ago, another company is working to prevent a blowout in the North Sea.
View ArticleMariner Rig Accident Undercuts Efforts to End Drilling Moratorium
As lawmakers call for new inquiries into Thursday's accident, oil industry executives say it will now be more difficult to lift the government's offshore drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.
View ArticleOn Our Radar: Brazil’s Green Candidate Gets 20%
Supporters hope that Marina Silva's showing will reverberate even though she will not be on the presidential runoff ballot.
View Article‘Dirty’ Energy Dwarfs Clean in China and India
Talk of the countries' investments in solar and wind power may obscure the reality of an insatiable demand for coal and other fossil fuels.
View ArticleUtah Activist Goes on Trial for Disrupting Oil Auction
The defendant called his bids for oil leases an act of civil disobedience motivated by concerns over climate change and the despoiling of public lands by industry.
View ArticleOn Our Radar: The Bounteous South China Sea
Ties between China and Southeast Asian countries that open a summit meeting this week have been strained as a result of overlapping claims in the South China Sea.
View ArticleOn Our Radar: Tree Killer Crosses the Hudson
Luckily, experts say, the colony of emerald ash borers was discovered less than a year after it was established.
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