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As Oil Giants Lose Influence, Supply Drops
New York Times - By Jad Mouawad - Aug. 19 (News Report)
Oil production has begun falling at all of the major Western oil companies, and they are finding it harder than ever to find new prospects even though they are awash in profits... More »
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Windmills split town and families
Associated Press - By Helen O'Neill - Aug. 17 (News Report)
"Listen," John Yancey says, leaning against his truck in a field outside his home. The rhythmic whoosh, whoosh, whoosh of wind turbines echoes through the air... More »
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BP on alert as Russian jets attack pipeline in Georgia
Daily Telegraph - By Jonathan Sibun - Aug. 11 (News Report)
BP is facing a second front in the former Soviet Union after Russian jets were reported to have launched a bombing raid on its main pipeline in Georgia, raising fears that Moscow... More »
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At OpEdNews: See No Hemp, Hear No Hemp, Speak No Hemp, Part I
Op Ed News - Aug. 18 (News Analysis)
They knew in the 1930's that we could make biodiesel out of hemp. It was the Lumber Companies who opposed it. For we can make paper out of it, along with plastics and cloths... More »
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Eastern Uganda Grapples with Power Plant Project
National Public Radio - By Jason Kane - Aug. 14 (Special Report)
(text only) In the East African nation of Uganda, where 95 percent of the people live without electricity, a $750 million hydropower project has been approved by the government... More »
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McCain scores an imperfect 8
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Thomas L. Friedman - Aug. 14 (Opinion)
McCain did not show up for the crucial vote July 30, and the renewable energy bill was defeated for the eighth time. In fact, McCain has a perfect record on this renewable energy... More »
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Obama's, McCain's energy plans share similar goal
Houston Chronicle - By David Ivanovich, Julie Mason - Aug. 10 (Opinion)
"There will always be differences, but overall they're not that far apart," said Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (a... More »
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The Winning Hand
New York Times - By Bob Herbert - Aug. 5 (Opinion)
Put aside for a moment all the talk about alternative fuels. They are no doubt important and the wave of the future. But the fastest, cheapest, easiest and cleanest step toward a... More »
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The Washington Monthly
Washington Monthly - By Kevin Drum - Aug. 11 (Editorial)
Most of the polls frame the issue as though it were a problem of "energy independence" or of dealing with the "rising cost of gasoline... More »
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His Drilling Plan Is Full of Holes
TruthDig - By Joe Conason - Aug. 5 (Editorial)
Not surprisingly, this new McCain is not quite as accessible to the press as the earlier version, partly because he resents the media attention devoted to his Democratic opponent... More »
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Earth: The Biography - Atmosphere
National Geographic - By Iain Stewart - Jul. 22 (Special Report)
(VIDEO) The atmosphere is Earth's protective layer, cloaking us in a warm, oxygen-rich embrace and shielding us from the cold hostility of space... More »
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Windmills split town and families
Associated Press - By Helen O'Neill - Aug. 17 (News Report)
"Listen," John Yancey says, leaning against his truck in a field outside his home. The rhythmic whoosh, whoosh, whoosh of wind turbines echoes through the air... More »
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Australia and climate change
Economist - Jul. 25 (News Report)
Mr Rudd ratified the Kyoto protocol soon after his victory. After this symbolic gesture, the politics may now prove harder. Under Mr Rudd's cap-and-trade scheme, Australia's... More »
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Chickens Come Home to Roost in Georgia
New American Media - By William O. Beeman - Aug. 11 (Special Report)
Access to Caspian oil was one burning policy goal of all administrations since 1990. The easy route for transport of petroleum products from the region would be through Iran's... More »
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McCain Bets on Off Shore Drilling
Washington Independent - By Sherry Bebitch Jeffe - Aug. 1 (News Analysis)
Yet none of these numbers tell the entire story. They cannot gauge the intensity of public opinion. In the end, offshore oil drilling is an issue not unlike gun control... More »
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The Winning Hand
New York Times - By Bob Herbert - Aug. 5 (Opinion)
Put aside for a moment all the talk about alternative fuels. They are no doubt important and the wave of the future. But the fastest, cheapest, easiest and cleanest step toward a... More »
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Where would America's renewable energy come from?
Christian Science Monitor - By Eoin O'Carroll - Jul. 24 (Blog Post)
That's where my new favorite website comes in. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, part of the US Department of Energy, offers a wealth of data about America's capacity for... More »
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Al Gore: Carbon-free juice
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jul. 24 (Editorial)
The time has come for our generation's Manhattan Project. One that balances the challenges of global warming mitigation with our need for energy (and economic) independence... More »
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Ecoterrorism, not
The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - Jul. 31 (Blog Post)
[DISCLOSURE: This piece is from the private blog of a NewsTrust staff member] But Blue Ridge Earth First! activists as eco-terrorists? Five folks who blockaded Dominion Resources... More »
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Weapons Plutonium Fuel Test Fails
Union of Concerned Scientists / Friends of the Earth - Aug. 4 (Press Release)
Citing the recent failure of an experimental plutonium fuel assembly test at a South Carolina nuclear plant, two watchdog groups today called on the Department of Energy (DOE) to... More »
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BP on alert as Russian jets attack pipeline in Georgia
Daily Telegraph - By Jonathan Sibun - Aug. 11 (News Report)
BP is facing a second front in the former Soviet Union after Russian jets were reported to have launched a bombing raid on its main pipeline in Georgia, raising fears that Moscow... More »
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EPA denies request by governor of Texas for ethanol-mandate waiver
Associated Press - By Betsy Blaney - Aug. 7 (News Report)
An energy bill passed in December required 9 billion gallons of ethanol to be blended into gasoline this year and about 11 billion gallons next year... More »
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Energy Crisis: Putting the planet at risk?
CNN - By Larry King - Aug. 4 (Interview)
(VIDEO - 12:52) Larry King talks about which presidential candidate's energy plan is best suited to end America's energy crisis. Includes interviews with Gov. Bill Richardson, Gov... More »
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Pools of Fire
CounterPunch - By Jeffrey St. Clair - Aug. 10 (Special Report)
All this makes Shearon Harris a very inviting target for would-be terrorists. In fact, the Department of Homeland Security has fingered Shearon Harris as one of the most... More »
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Electric Cars Are the Key to Energy Independence
AlterNet - By David Morris - Aug. 3 (Special Report)
We have done a great deal, from the bottom up, to increase the supply of renewable electricity. Less well known is how much we have done on the demand side of the equation, that... More »
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Obama's, McCain's energy plans share similar goal
Houston Chronicle - By David Ivanovich, Julie Mason - Aug. 10 (Opinion)
"There will always be differences, but overall they're not that far apart," said Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (a... More »
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Texas to Tel Aviv
New York Times - By Thomas Friedman - Jul. 27 (Opinion)
The only good thing to come from soaring oil prices is that they have spurred innovator/investors, successful in other fields, to move into clean energy with a mad-as-hell, can-do... More »
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T. Boone Pickens Rides the Wind - Editorial
New York Times - By Editors - Jul. 22 (Editorial)
Mr. Pickens is putting his money where his ideas are, and in Texas he has begun assembling the pieces of a huge wind farm. He estimates the cost at $6 billion to $10 billion (his... More »
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The Washington Monthly
Washington Monthly - By Kevin Drum - Aug. 11 (Editorial)
Most of the polls frame the issue as though it were a problem of "energy independence" or of dealing with the "rising cost of gasoline... More »
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His Drilling Plan Is Full of Holes
TruthDig - By Joe Conason - Aug. 5 (Editorial)
Not surprisingly, this new McCain is not quite as accessible to the press as the earlier version, partly because he resents the media attention devoted to his Democratic opponent... More »
